[110955] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Sat Jan 24 13:18:56 2009
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:18:51 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <497B4ED4.9090305@cybernothing.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
J.D. Falk wrote:
> Seth Mattinen wrote:
>> Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
>>> I respectfully disagree. Network engineers have to keep up with many
>>> tasks and preventing DoS/DDoS should be the responsibility of
>>> everyone. I see more folks worried about spam than they are actual
>>> security.
>>>
>>
>> Back to my original question: is there really not a better solution?
>
> This sounds a lot like the conversations which led to the creation of
> the original Realtime Blackhole List of spam sources. When was that, 1996?
>
Perhaps the time has come for a BGP blackhole list like the bogon routes
one. Who wants to become a target? ;)
~Seth
