[122264] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Google to offer fiber to end users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Hubbard)
Wed Feb 10 17:00:10 2010
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:58:42 -0500
From: David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
From: Florian Weimer [mailto:fw@deneb.enyo.de]=20
>=20
> * David Hubbard:
>=20
> > Residential computers with enough bandwidth to DoS
> > hosting providers; that should be fun.
>=20
> How is this different from a typical dorm network?
> (Perhaps with all that P2P filtering software in place,
> it's a mere self-DoS nowadays, but the analogy was not
> that far off five years ago or so, with less bandwidth,
> of course.)
>=20
Three colleges I've worked at were pretty progressive
in their monitoring, rate limiting and proactive
management of dorm networks; i.e. full bandwidth to
campus, i2, etc. destinations but maybe not to other
remote locations, automated responses to bad behavior
characteristics, etc. I'm far less worried about
someone in a dorm launching a full gig of http requests
against one IP than a residential computer doing that
for 36 hours before someone from Google takes note.
If they manage the broadband abuse they way they do
gmail forum spammers, I don't have high hopes.
David=20
