[119084] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing in dealing with DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eliot Lear)
Fri Nov 6 09:25:49 2009
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:25:05 +0100
From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
In-Reply-To: <82tyx8m14c.fsf@mid.bfk.de>
Cc: 'Jeffrey Lyon' <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>,
'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/6/09 10:52 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Stefan Fouant:
>
>
>> Obviously the cloud is no different than any other infrastructure insofar as
>> implementing protection mechanisms.
>>
> It's different in one aspect, though: you don't know with whom you're
> sharing your toothbrush.
>
I love the analogy, though I feel the need to replace my toothbrush.
I also think that clouds have a tendency to do usage based billing, and
hence a DDOS can run your meter, which perhaps is where Stefan Fouant
gets to the idea of EDOS.
Eliot
