[70224] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Damm)
Wed May 5 14:52:21 2004
From: Mike Damm <MikeD@irwinresearch.com>
To: "'William B. Norton'" <wbn@equinix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:51:19 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Very very very near to, but not quite 100%. Since almost all of the traffic
on the Internet isn't sourced by or destined for me, I consider it junk.
Also remember that to a packet kid, that insane flood of packets destined
for his target is the most important traffic in the world. And to a spammer,
the very mailings that are making him millions are more important than
pictures of someone's grandkids.
I guess my point is junk is a very relative term. A study would need to
first be done to identify what junk actually is, then measuring it is
trivial.
-Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: William B. Norton [mailto:wbn@equinix.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 11:21 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk?
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?
Bill
