[76330] in North American Network Operators' Group
Blocking worms/ddos for customer for free?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kim Onnel)
Mon Dec 6 14:54:08 2004
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:46:04 +0200
From: Kim Onnel <karim.adel@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Kim Onnel <karim.adel@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hello,
Currently, on our ingress, we block spoofed packets, common worms/trojans ports.
We do that for all of our customers(residential DSL, Dial-up,
Corporate DSL, and the data center hosted websites/servers), however,
For me there are 2 ways to look at it,
if i leave these worms to come in, they would consume our bandwidth
and CPU, and on the other hand, it looks like we're giving a free
service, which in a way uses up our resources,
Its the same for DDoS, if i stop it for a customer, i'm giving him a
free a service, if i dont, its gonna wreck my network.
Personally, i block the illegitimate packets out of my network(egress)
but thats because i owe this to the internet community, even if i am
not getting paid for it.
I would like to know other providers policy about this?
