[18949] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: BBN/GTEI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Sat Aug 22 21:00:23 1998
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 19:34:57 -0500
From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.980822075332.1232L-100000@sidhe.memra.com>; from Michael Dillon on Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 07:55:22AM -0700
On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 07:55:22AM -0700, Michael Dillon wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Dave Rand wrote:
>
> > All I can say is that if settlements are based on who is receiving
> > the traffic, there will be huge increase in the amount of money
> > that networks pay to attract everyone's favortive smurf target,
> > the IRC servers. A 2-day-long 100 Mbps smurf will be _encouraged_ :-)
>
> The peer whose network the SMURF originates in will trace that back to the
> source so fast you'll smell the rubber burning. DoS based on large numbers
> of packets will be a thing of the past.
>
> --
> Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
> Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: michael@memra.com
Hahahahahahhahahahahaha....
Those attacks hurt providers who are used as sources (or amplifiers) RIGHT
NOW, by saturating links that would otherwise be relatively idle! They still
DO NOTHING!
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