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Re: Who does source address validation? (was Re: what's that smell?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Oct 8 20:05:22 2002

From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: "John M. Brown" <john@chagresventures.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 09:04:44 +0900
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


>> Why is it hard to believe that a large amount of RFC-1918 sourced
>> traffic is floating around the net?
> Because if 20% of all people generate this crap (which is a huge number)
> it must be 90% of their traffic to get at 18%. How can someone generate so
> much useless traffic and keep doing it, too?

funny question from someone who reads this mailing list :-)



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