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Re: register.com down sev0?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Oct 26 17:40:46 2006

From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:14:34 -0700
To: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
Cc: Fergie <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> what's curious, to me atleat, is that folks equate 'botnet' and 'spoofed
> source attacks' more often than I'd think is reasonable. I've not got
> 'hard numbers' but almost every time the attack is determined to be
> 'botnet' it's not spoofed.
> 
> Odd... (not that I'm against bcp38, I just think the distraction in
> conversation from 'bcp38 is good' to 'we must stop bots' is not helpful)

bingo!

when you have religion about a hammer, everything looks like a
nail.

randy


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