Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?
Thomas Mangin
thomas.mangin at exa-networks.co.uk
Wed Dec 8 17:51:31 UTC 2010
On 8 Dec 2010, at 15:40, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:36 PM, Thomas Mangin wrote:
>
>> If you are a smaller network, you need the filtering to be performed by your transit provider, as your uplink will otherwise be congested.
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> Actually, most DDoS attacks aren't link-flooding attacks - this hasn't been true for the last ~7 years or so.
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> I'm not saying it doesn't happen, because it does, and sometimes quite spectacularly - but in most cases, the attackers don't have to flood the link to achieve their desired goal.
Fair point. I never had to face any intelligent type of DDOS ... lucky me :)
Thomas
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