What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk?
Suresh Ramasubramanian
suresh at outblaze.com
Fri May 7 01:19:36 UTC 2004
Petri Helenius wrote:
> There is also a lot of "background Internet radiation" coming from p2p
> applications which seem to remember their peers for a week or two. These
> usually account for most of the unidirectional traffic knocking on doors
> unanswered. (not counting large DDoS).
Martian packets, idiots who configure non rfc1918 ips into their LANs
and then leak these out to the world, random spoofed source address
traffic and/or DDoS traffic as you say (insert bcp 38 thread here) - all
far more common than they ought to be.
But junk p2p applications written by people who can read /. far better
than they can code, and who will be first up against the wall when the
coding revolution begins, is definitely the major factor.
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suresh ramasubramanian suresh at outblaze.com gpg EDEDEFB9
manager, security and antispam operations, outblaze ltd
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