[182821] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Sun Aug 2 12:26:33 2015
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From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 23:25:32 +0700
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On 2 Aug 2015, at 22:56, Alistair Mackenzie wrote:
> I would assume this would a start to the problem if your attacks were
> volumetric.
In a world of 430gb/sec reflection/amplification DDoS attacks, not
really.
;>
Just increasing bandwidth has never been a viable DDoS defense tactic,
due to the extreme asymmetry of resource ratios in favor of the
attackers.
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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
