[161699] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Resolver Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Mon Mar 25 14:09:40 2013
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:09:15 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 25/03/2013 17:51, William Herrin wrote:
> Hassling the folks who run open resolvers further victimizes the
> innocent.
running open resolvers will continue to be a major problem as a DDoS
platform on the Internet until everyone implements BCP38. When everyone
has implemented ingress filtering, we can have a beer and agree that
running open resolvers is less harmful. Until then, though, they're a menace.
Nick
