[169135] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Permitting spoofed traffic [Was: Re: ddos attack blog]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Fri Feb 14 18:01:01 2014
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:00:27 -0600
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <SJjb1n00k1Una3W01Jjcpl>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/14/2014 12:42 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> Taken to the logical extreme, the "right thing" to do is to deny any
> spoofed traffic from abusing these services altogether.
Since the 1990s I have argued (ineffectively, it turns out) a case that
says that sentence can be edited down to good advantage as:
> Taken to the logical extreme, the "right thing" to do is to deny any
> spoofed traffic.
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