[61430] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu Aug 28 16:47:51 2003
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:47:12 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Damian Gerow <damian@sentex.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030828203231.GC6965@sentex.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Damian Gerow wrote:
> Or potentially an artifact of wanting more IP space from ARIN, as
> opposed to
>
>assigning a static IP to every user we have, even the ones that are only
>connected for about an hour a month. But hey, that's just a minor detail.
>
>
Sorry for momentarily phasing to our local la-la-land where the address
space used by always-on
connections has passed the dialup ones a few years ago. Dialup users
also cannot generate any
significant DDoS traffic even if combined by a factor of 10000.
Pete
