New IPv4 Allocation to ARIN

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Sun Jan 18 14:17:32 UTC 2004


Pete Templin wrote:

>
> He has a reason: that virus was melting down his network (and was 
> melting down lots of networks).
>
I point to the word "backbone". If your dial servers melt, block the 
packets at dial
servers, don´t launch weapon of mass packet destruction to all traffic. 
Filtering
should be more targeted so it does not kill or hamper what it´s supposed 
to protect
in the first place.

Pete





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