[65497] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worm Bandwidth [was Re: Santa Fe city government computers knocked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Nov 28 17:10:38 2003
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:08:51 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0311242229080.5660-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
>ISPs don't have (much) control over third-party computers. But they can
>control their network capacity. Of course, its not a complete solution.
>If you are a mid-level ISP, you may have a choke point to your customer
>but are vulnerable from your upstream provider. A better designed worm
>could impact even major backbones.
>
>
>
If you are an access provider, specially in the consumer space, you can
do many things
to help the "Greater Internet" by keeping your own back yard in good shape.
In the transit business, you are expected to deliver the bits regardless
of the content
so there the only viable option is to drop packets where the source or
destination
addresses donīt make sense.
Pete
