[70268] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu May 6 14:55:10 2004
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 21:53:00 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "William B. Norton" <wbn@equinix.com>
Cc: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>,
Steve Gibbard <scg@gibbard.org>, Mike Damm <MikeD@irwinresearch.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.0.20040505141013.01b6dec0@nemo.corp.equinix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
William B. Norton wrote:
>
>
> For those who say things like "can't define 'junk' precisely", I would
> agree, but I think we also can agree that we all have a general idea
> of what junk is. Just looking for round #'s really. It isn't 0%, and
> it isn't 90% (although it seems that way sometimes).
>
> I would also agree that it would be valuable for the community to
> track this # over time. You can't manage it if you can't measure it.
>
There is also a lot of "background Internet radiation" coming from p2p
applications which seem to remember their peers for a week or two. These
usually account for most of the unidirectional traffic knocking on doors
unanswered. (not counting large DDoS).
Pete
