[60481] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Wed Aug 13 05:48:42 2003
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:03 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
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* steve@telecomplete.co.uk (Stephen J. Wilcox) [Wed 13 Aug 2003, 10:58 CEST]:
> In your world DoS traffic would be free to roam the networks as it
> pleased without being throttled sensibly at ingress?
How many people are actually following RFC3514? (In other words, how do
you separate DoS traffic from normal traffic and define sensibly)
> Or the dumb [wannabee] IT guy runs some telnet/ftp/filesharing service
> without passwords and its ok for the whole world to access the private
> system coz its his fault?
Whose fault can it possibly be besides his? You have to expect others
to be psychic to believe otherwise.
-- Niels.
