[182815] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Pooser)
Sun Aug 2 11:44:55 2015
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Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 10:44:39 -0500
From: Dave Pooser <dave-nanog@pooserville.com>
To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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>>any security protections so competitors can't kill off their
>> competition?)
>
>It would be interesting to learn whether they saw any DDoS attacks or
>cheating attempts during competitive play, or even casual
>non-competitive play amongst attendees.
I wonder if that would be a reason for the relatively anemic 1Gb Internet
pipe-- making sure that a DDoS couldn't push enough packets through to
inconvenience the LAN party.
(Disclaimer: $DAYJOB did the audio/visual/lighting for QuakeCon but we had
nothing to do with the network and I was utterly uninvolved in any way,
so my speculation is based on no information obtained from outside my own
skull.)
--
Dave Pooser
Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com
