[53024] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Re: the cost of carrying routes]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Sun Oct 27 14:31:57 2002
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 05:33:21 +0100
Cc: Ratul Mahajan <ratul@cs.washington.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <200210171717.g9HHHXbT007433@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> egal requirements to "the bottom line". If a site is paying you for
> transit,
> there's a very strong *dis*incentive to take any action that would
> prevent a
> DDoS attack - the bottom line says the Right Thing is to install just
> enough
> traffic shaping so a DDoS won't melt *your* net, and bill for the
> traffic. ;)
Not really true. I have to carry that traffic through my backbone and
in doing, the DDOS traffic might take out or affect other services such
as IP-VPNs (that would probably generate more money anyway).
Best regards,
- kurtis -
