[80701] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DOS attack tracing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue May 10 08:06:51 2005
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:36:20 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
Cc: Kim Onnel <karim.adel@gmail.com>,
Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <A206819EF47CBE4F84B5CB4A303CEB7A5212CB@dul1wnexmb01.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 5/10/05, Hannigan, Martin <hannigan@verisign.com> wrote:
> DDOS' is rather infrequent to zero for most enterprises. That DDOS
> golden banana is rather yummy with sprinkles on top. Don't get me wrong,
> the DDOS problem is real, but not for everyone, and not as frequently as
> it's being hyped up to be. A managed service is a better way
> to go if they're worried, IMO.
There's also the "minimze risk" thing .. take a conscious business
decision not to host one of the typical DDoS magnets (dont allow
people to run IRC bots on your colo farm, for example)
--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
