WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

Mon Aug 4 21:28:07 UTC 2003

> I'm all for raising the bar on attackers and having end networks implement
> proper source filtering, but even with that 1000 nt machines pinging 2
> packet per second is still enough to destroy a T1 customer, and likely
> with 1500 byte packets a T3 customer as well. You can't stop this without
> addressing the host security problem...

Do you believe backbone networks should do nothing?