Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)
Gadi Evron
ge at linuxbox.org
Sat Jan 24 02:17:41 UTC 2009
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
> I respectfully disagree. Network engineers have to keep up with many
> tasks and preventing DoS/DDoS should be the responsibility of
> everyone. I see more folks worried about spam than they are actual
> security.
Because non of us wantsto spend the next two days working on fixing mail
for our organizations.
That said, when speaking of DDoS, I believe they are mostly the same
bots.
And yes, while there is a lot we can do to mitigate DDoS, we are that
helpless. All our strategies show as much.
Gadi.
More information about the NANOG
mailing list