[119053] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing in dealing with DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Thu Nov 5 14:08:17 2009
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: fergdawgster@gmail.com (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 13:07:23 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <6cd462c00911051104h4a2ee37bk44e4ecdfe36d1690@mail.gmail.com>
from "Paul Ferguson" at Nov 05, 2009 11:04:00 AM
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
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> > Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
> >> DDoS is a threat to the cloud just as DDoS is a threat to any other
> >> service when you fail to implement protection. Our company recently
> >> put out a DDoS mitigated cloud product specifically for high risk
> >> clients.
> >>
> >
> > How about the cloud as a DDoS source?
> >
>
> It's called a botnet.
Everything's called a botnet.
How about 'clotnet'? :-)
... JG
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