[161534] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [c-nsp] DNS amplification
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Tue Mar 19 14:22:58 2013
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLaYgcbTdsor5VyuBOQ7hLZiQ-Sk72yemzcFpcD0sVbyL+g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:12:46 -0700
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Chris,
On Mar 19, 2013, at 10:50 AM, Christopher Morrow =
<morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>> With enough thrust, pigs fly quite well. Landing can get messy =
though...
> I was being serious...
As was I.
> put modern hardware to work and it gets simpler.
Yes, applying more thrust makes things simpler: all you need is money, =
bandwidth capacity, rackspace, power, cooling, time (to replace old =
equipment), etc. Moore's Law will probably save us. Probably.
But I know you know all of this.
Where I think things get a bit more interesting is if you assume smaller =
and smaller businesses start seeing "always on" Internet sufficiently =
important as to justify multihoming with PI. In the US alone there are =
6M SMEs with payrolls (21M without). Perhaps router vendors should adopt =
Doritos motto: "crunch all you want, we'll make more"...
Regards,
-drc
