Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls?

["Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen () punkt de>]

Hello!

Marcus J. Ranum wrote:

> [... lots of good stuff ...]
> I can't count the number of times that I convinced a CIO or
> CTO to implement logging and egress filtering, only to find out a
> year later that the whole thing had been shelved because of passive
> resistance from the Network Guys who trotted the usual bullsh*t out
> as soon as the dust settled.

Which still leaves us with the main question: why?
What are their real objectives?

I mean, I'm running an ISP here, so I don't read the log
entries for every blocked packet, but we _do_ monitor
all customer's lines with MRTG and _of_course_ all the
routers are configured to do unicast reverse path verification.
Hasn't brought the backbone to a crawl yet ;-)

Thanks,
Patrick M. Hausen
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