[182604] in North American Network Operators' Group
UDP clamped on service provider links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glen Kent)
Mon Jul 27 10:12:50 2015
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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:42:46 +0530
From: Glen Kent <glen.kent@gmail.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Hi,
Is it true that UDP is often subjected to stiffer rate limits than TCP? Is
there a reason why this is often done so? Is this because UDP is stateless
and any script kiddie could launch a DOS attack with a UDP stream?
Given the state of affairs these days how difficult is it going to be for
somebody to launch a DOS attack with some other protocol?
Glen
