[68505] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Counter DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sat Mar 13 11:10:18 2004
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:09:25 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Sam Stickland <sam_ml@spacething.org>
Cc: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <093601c4090e$0cf484c0$fb00a8c0@office.toastedmedia.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sam Stickland wrote:
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>Out of interest, do the people see much in the way of DDOS attacks from
>Japan? All that bandwidth and quite a sizable population (130 million) - but
>maybe the latency to US and European targets contrains it?
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Most attacks are unidirectional so the latency does not matter.
Pete
