[168661] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Sun Feb 2 22:39:09 2014
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 21:38:36 -0600
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <MfKJ1n0071Una3W01fKK6N>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/2/2014 9:17 PM, ryangard@gmail.com wrote:
> I'd hate to think that NetOps would be so heavy handed in blocking
> all of UDP, as this would essentially halt quite a bit of audio/video
> traffic. That being said, there's still quite the need for protocol
> improvement when making use of UDP, but blocking UDP as a whole is
> definitely not a resolution, and simply creating a wall that not only
> keeps the abusive traffic out, but keeps legitimate traffic from
> flowing freely as it should.
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