[82800] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Provider-based DDoS Protection Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Fri Jul 29 03:17:45 2005
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:44:56 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: John Neiberger <jneiberger@gmail.com>,
"Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <87vf2u6qb5.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 29/07/05, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>=20
> Anyway, you should examine *why* you (or your customers) are attacked,
> and address that. Everything else is likely cost-effective. Of
> course, this might mean you have to do without some revenue if you
> have customers that are DoS magnets for some reason.
>=20
Not allowing your users to run eggdrop or other irc bots on the shells
you give them, and generally not hosting irc stuff would definitely
help there.
--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)