[65180] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: looking for pull traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Thu Nov 13 18:06:53 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:02:47 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3znf0ne8s.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> support transit-exchange, there really ought to be a market for suck.
apparently there is a huge market for suck....
>
> (anybody have any guesses how much of the current ddos load is driven by
> ratio concerns? that is, now that we know spammers are hiring folks to
> ddos antispammers, can we finally admit that isp's are hiring folks to
> fix their ratios for them by ddosing from larger-provider networks?
> viva laissez faire, i guess.)
I know of cases that sure looked like this in the late 1999/2000
timeframe.
