Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses

Tue Aug 26 16:36:09 UTC 2003

At 19:08 -0400 8/25/03, Haesu wrote:
>  Managing a filter list on one or a few route-servers rather than an
>AS with hundred edge routers is so much time saving and less humanerror-prone.

But balance that with keep the path from filter list to route-server 
short too - because if you need to adjust a filter list in response 
to a network (or utility) emergency, you want to make sure the data 
is available.

(Based on experience with a project researching DDOS response.  We 
relied on certificates distributed by a DNS server.  When the flood 
was released, accessing DNS became impossible - the security system 
drowned in the flood.)
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