[110980] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lorell Hathcock)
Sun Jan 25 20:28:50 2009
From: "Lorell Hathcock" <lorell@hathcock.org>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <844C67FA-9F15-48A3-BD0D-61C0BD6521D8@virtualized.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:27:12 -0600
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Every time I see a post like the one below on this list, I can't help but
feel like big brother has infiltrated the list.
There's no mess like the ones government will create for you.
Lorell
-----Original Message-----
From: David Conrad [mailto:drc@virtualized.org]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 11:06 PM
To: Danny McPherson
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)
On Jan 23, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Danny McPherson wrote:
> You missed one.. Step 4: enable BCP 38 or similar
> ingress source address spoofing mitigation mechanism
> on all customer ingress interfaces
> ...
> No more excuses, people..
Sad fact is that there are zillions of excuses. Unfortunately I
suspect the only way we're going to make any progress on this will be
for laws to be passed (or lawsuits to be filed) that impose a
financial penalty on ISPs through which these attacks propagate.
Regards,
-drc
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