[27078] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo! Lessons Learned
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed Feb 9 02:28:41 2000
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 23:26:49 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Message-Id: <200002090726.XAA08147@kitty.kotovnik.com>
To: goemon@sasami.anime.net
Cc: dts@senie.com, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> wrote:
> The best penalty of all - simply pulling customer's plug till they fix
> their network, with a repeat offense resulting in permanent disconnection.
Heh. Engineering guys who try to do that very quickly find very irate
sales and management types screaming abuse at them :(
The DoS prevention functions (not letting directed bcast in, and not letting
forged addresses out) should be done at provider's side.
--vadim
