[148152] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George, Wes)
Wed Jan 4 15:11:22 2012
From: "George, Wes" <wesley.george@twcable.com>
To: "Wessels, Duane" <dwessels@verisign.com>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:10:13 -0500
In-Reply-To: <175C077F-0B34-4995-A956-1517CDC10138@verisign.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From: Wessels, Duane [mailto:dwessels@verisign.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 1:41 PM
> Subject: Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org
>
>
> The brief problem in accessing www.nanog.org was due to numerous
> parallel
> downloads of a large video file by a single source IP address. We have
> no reason to believe it was malicious in intent, but the offender has
> been
> blocked anyway.
[WEG] In the lovely CGN future, not only will you see this type of behavior=
(multiple pulls from the same IP) all of the time, your response to block =
it would have taken tens or hundreds of users out of service simultaneously=
.
/troll
Not meant to fault your response, merely to point out yet one more way that=
CGN is likely to break things where an assumption of 1 IP =3D 1 user/host/=
network exists.
Wes George
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