[177254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DDOS solution recommendation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Sun Jan 11 08:25:19 2015
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From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:24:55 +0700
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On 11 Jan 2015, at 20:07, Mike Hammett wrote:
> but I'd think that if their network's abuse department was notified,
> either they'd contact the customer about it issue or at least have on
> file that they were notified.
Just because we think something, that doesn't make it true.
;>
> The way to stop this stuff is for those millions of end users to clean
> up their infected PCs.
You may want to do some reading on this topic in order to gain a better
understanding of the issues involved:
<https://app.box.com/s/4h2l6f4m8is6jnwk28cg>
Some of us have been dealing with DDoS attacks for a couple of decades,
now. If it were a simple problem, we would've solved it long ago.
Here's a hint: scale alone makes any problem literally orders of
magnitude more difficult than any given instance thereof.
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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
