[61240] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Haesu)
Tue Aug 26 15:16:09 2003
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:15:10 -0400
From: Haesu <haesu@towardex.com>
To: Edward Lewis <edlewis@arin.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a05111b10bb713c22428a@[192.168.1.100]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
That is true, although distributed route-servers that serve specific region
may be easier dealing with emergencies (i.e. local POP(s) having emergency
situation etc)
-hc
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:36:09PM -0400, Edward Lewis wrote:
>
> At 19:08 -0400 8/25/03, Haesu wrote:
> > Managing a filter list on one or a few route-servers rather than an
> >AS with hundred edge routers is so much time saving and less
> >humanerror-prone.
>
> But balance that with keep the path from filter list to route-server
> short too - because if you need to adjust a filter list in response
> to a network (or utility) emergency, you want to make sure the data
> is available.
>
> (Based on experience with a project researching DDOS response. We
> relied on certificates distributed by a DNS server. When the flood
> was released, accessing DNS became impossible - the security system
> drowned in the flood.)
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