[Re: the cost of carrying routes]

Sun Oct 27 04:33:21 UTC 2002

> egal requirements to "the bottom line".  If a site is paying you for 
> transit,
> there's a very strong *dis*incentive to take any action that would 
> prevent a
> DDoS attack - the bottom line says the Right Thing is to install just 
> enough
> traffic shaping so a DDoS won't melt *your* net, and bill for the 
> traffic. ;)

Not really true. I have to carry that traffic through my backbone and 
in doing, the DDOS traffic might take out or affect other services such 
as IP-VPNs (that would probably generate more money anyway).

Best regards,

- kurtis -