[116223] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T. Layer 6-8 needed.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew D Kirch)
Mon Jul 27 02:28:22 2009
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:25:29 -0400
From: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
To: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
In-Reply-To: <1248675766.13748.12.camel@petrie>
Cc: "nanog - n. am. network ops group list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: trelane@trelane.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
William Pitcock wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 23:15 -0700, Shon Elliott wrote:
>
>> Okay, so how do YOU block the attacks from eating up your bandwidth
>> and filling
>> up your logs without blocking the entire IP?
>>
>
> If I was AT&T, I would purchase DDoS filtering equipment and run it at
> edge where all of my traffic is peering anyway.
>
> This discussion is about AT&T, not you.
>
> William
>
While I agree, I certainly believe that due to the nature of some of the
content
on 4chan, AT&T can make a strong "Good Samaritan" claim under 47USC230.
There's
always TOR.
Andrew D Kirch
