[80706] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DOS attack tracing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Ranch)
Tue May 10 11:53:33 2005
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:52:58 -0400
From: "Chris Ranch" <CRanch@Affinity.com>
To: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>,
"Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
Cc: "Kim Onnel" <karim.adel@gmail.com>,
"Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:06 AM, Suresh wrote:
> On 5/10/05, Hannigan, Martin <hannigan@verisign.com> wrote:
> > DDOS' is rather infrequent to zero for most enterprises. That DDOS=20
> > golden banana is rather yummy with sprinkles on top. Don't get me=20
> > wrong, the DDOS problem is real, but not for everyone, and not as=20
> > frequently as it's being hyped up to be. A managed service=20
> is a better=20
> > way to go if they're worried, IMO.
>=20
> There's also the "minimze risk" thing .. take a conscious=20
> business decision not to host one of the typical DDoS magnets=20
> (dont allow people to run IRC bots on your colo farm, for example)
Dumping our IRC customers dropped our DDoS frequency by an order of
magnitude. We've certainly slept better as a result.
Chris
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Chris Ranch
Director of Network Architecture
Affinity Internet, Inc.
