[70223] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne E. Bouchard)
Wed May 5 14:48:06 2004
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:45:24 -0700
From: "Wayne E. Bouchard" <web@typo.org>
To: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <409933DD.9060703@cox.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
It might be interesting to get a sense of percentages of traffic that
are "undesireable" (spam, DDOS, etc), "administrative" (logging, snmp,
rmon, etc), and "user traffic".
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 01:35:09PM -0500, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
>
> William B. Norton wrote:
>
> >With all the spam, infected e-mails, DOS attacks, ultimately blackholed
> >traffic, etc. I wonder if there has been a study that quantifies
> >
> >What percentage of the Internet traffic is junk?
>
> I don't know the answer in any case, but I would need a definition
> for "Internet traffic" before I could even start.
>
> Do we include the image and tabular date to and from the EROS
> Data Center? How about the radiographic images and resulting
> "readings" (or what ever the correct term is) to and from the
> hospital in Atkinson? Credit card transactions at FDR?
>
> I have a morbid fascination with weather so I am forever looking
> at maps, satellite images, and all sorts of stuff that some people
> tell me is a waste of my time, so I presume that is "junk"
>
> What are we talking about?
>
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Wayne Bouchard
web@typo.org
Network Dude
http://www.typo.org/~web/
