[60239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bdragon@gweep.net)
Mon Aug 4 17:28:42 2003
To: chris@UU.NET (Christopher L. Morrow)
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 17:28:07 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0307302228280.693@rampart.argfrp.us.uu.net> from "Christopher L. Morrow" at Jul 30, 2003 10:37:21 PM
From: bdragon@gweep.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I'm all for raising the bar on attackers and having end networks implement
> proper source filtering, but even with that 1000 nt machines pinging 2
> packet per second is still enough to destroy a T1 customer, and likely
> with 1500 byte packets a T3 customer as well. You can't stop this without
> addressing the host security problem...
Do you believe backbone networks should do nothing?
