[68230] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terranson, Alif)
Fri Mar 5 20:27:30 2004
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:26:40 -0600
From: "Terranson, Alif" <Alif.Terranson@savvis.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> > the packets as possible. Nebulous filtering and dropping of=20
> > miniscule amounts of traffic in the core of a large network is=20
> > just a waste of effort and false panacea.
Agreed. =20
> uunet does operate lots of dialup RAS though correct? any=20
> reason why urpf=20
> is not reasonable there?
Nobody I know terminates a dial connection on a *core router* ;-)
//Alif
Alif Terranson
OpSec Engineering Mgr.
Operations Security Dept.
Savvis Communications Corp.
(314) 628-7602 Voice
(618) 558-5854 Cell
(314) 628-7710 Fax
>=20
