[52969] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS issues various
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Oct 24 14:37:22 2002
To: "Kelly J. Cooper" <kcooper@genuity.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:01:44 -0000."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:34:37 -0400
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:01:44 -0000, "Kelly J. Cooper" <kcooper@genuity.net> said:
> So, seven years of hardening hosts against SYN attacks. Five years of
> trying to get people to turn off the forwarding of broadcast packets.
> Three years of botnets generating meg upon meg of crap-bandwidth.
>
> Where are the suuuuuper-geniuses?
You know, most bars have bouncers at the door that check IDs. Sure, they're
not perfect, but the bartender can usually be pretty sure the guy ordering a
beer is over 21. The average bar isn't run by a soooper-genius. But it's still
considered fashionable to let packets roam your network without an ID check at
the door.
soooper-genius solutions aren't going to help any when there's a lot of
address space that's managed by Homer Simpson....
--
Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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