[29831] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: RBL-type BGP service for known rogue networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vijay Gill)
Fri Jul 7 17:16:51 2000
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:00:34 -0400
From: Vijay Gill <vijay@umbc.edu>
To: Kai Schlichting <kai@pac-rim.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Kai Schlichting wrote:
> A network design that doesn't allow tracing back spoofed traffic?
> Way to go, UUnet.
It is fairly clear to anyone with a smidgen of technical competence that
this is not a network design issue per se, it is an equipment issue (and a
router one at that).
It is trivially easy to throw stones at other peoples design while sitting
behind the helm of your very own multi-terabit ISP of comparable size, I'm
sure.
> Now, lets watch Vijay rush to the defense of his, uhm, stock options.
What options would these be?
/vijay
