[148160] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Hallgren)
Wed Jan 4 16:11:44 2012
From: Michael Hallgren <m.hallgren@free.fr>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
In-Reply-To: <20120104201801.GA3917@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:10:55 +0100
Cc: "Wessels, Duane" <dwessels@verisign.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Le mercredi 04 janvier 2012 à 20:18 +0000, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
a écrit :
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:10:13PM -0500, George, Wes wrote:
> > > 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 = 1 user/host/network exists.
> >
> > Wes George
>
> Hum... thats not how I read Duanes response at all.. I thought they blocked
> the (excessively) large video file from download... :)
Depends of how we (are supposed to) interpret ``the offender has been
blocked anyway'' :)
Cheers,
mh
>
> /bill
>
