[133309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Wed Dec 8 11:29:00 2010
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: North American Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:28:46 +0000
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On Dec 8, 2010, at 11:14 PM, Drew Weaver wrote:
> I would say that > 99% of the attacks that we see are 'link fillers' with=
< 1% being an application attack.
Application-layer attacks aside, most packet-flooding attacks these days do=
n't completely fill links, as there's no need for the attacker to do so.
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