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Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Feb 4 13:52:38 2014

In-Reply-To: <8FDC5505-2DEA-4158-8DE6-588423BC96E9@heliacal.net>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:52:04 -0500
To: Laszlo Hanyecz <laszlo@heliacal.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Laszlo Hanyecz <laszlo@heliacal.net> wrote:
> Why not just provide a public API that lets users specify which
> of your customers they want to null route?

They're spoofed packets. There's no way for anyone outside your AS to
know which of your customers the packets came from. It's not
particularly easy to trace inside your AS either.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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