Any way to P-T-P Distribute the RBL lists?

Thu Sep 25 21:04:37 UTC 2003

Jay Kline wrote:

>The trick then will be to have as many different participants as possible,
>and to have each participant share who it thinks the other participants are
>(or explicitly are not).  Then if you take out one node, the others are not
>prevented from functioning.
>  
>

Again, the problem is if you are the secondary or distribution point  
that is having it's turn at being DDoSed are you going to be happy with 
100M of targetted crap being aimed at your ip space?

Are you going to come back online as soon as the DDoSer moves to the 
next target?

The problem here is the amount of DDoS traffic is significant for the 
upstreams to say "we're not going to carry this, fix it or we'll drop 
you" - except in the cases of nodes in various IX's - however there 
aren't many willing to put nodes in IX's (and certainly not for free).

/ Mat