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Re: AW: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Jul 31 13:44:27 2006

To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
Cc: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>,
	Gunther Stammwitz <gstammw@gmx.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:30:48 CDT."
             <Pine.LNX.4.21.0607311229440.9046-100000@linuxbox.org>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:43:44 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:30:48 CDT, Gadi Evron said:
> 
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Dean Anderson wrote:
> > You are approaching the problem the wrong way. Many failover systems
> > work very well when the primary fails entirely--when the salesman pulls
> > the plug.  Few work well when the primary doesn't entirely fail, but
> > just doesn't work correctly, as is usually the case in the real world.
> 
> Such as? How does it apply to the network world?

What, you never had a BGP session to a peer router that lied through its
teeth about its other interfaces being up, so you didn't fallover to
an alternate route? :)

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