[68242] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat Mar 6 18:03:33 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 06 Mar 2004 23:02:55 +0000
In-Reply-To: <404A3680.8070600@expertcity.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
steve@expertcity.com (Steve Francis) writes:
> ...
> But in the real world...given that you are going to be peering with ISPs
> (or their upstreams) that do not do uRPF or anything at all on their
> edges, ...
ok, i'll bite. why do we still do this? see the following from june 2001:
http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/historical/0106/msg00681.html
(and according to that text, it was a 9-year-old idea at that time.)
it's now 2004. how much longer do we want to have this problem?
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Paul Vixie
