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Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt
From: "Wojtek Zlobicki" <wojtekz () idirect com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:56:20 -0400
There is another issue here. I hope the DI has another method of gauging performance. We all know well that ICMP is being fully blocked by some. Is there no other way for DI to try to approximate the proximity of a customer to their servers? If a network is blocking ICMP, how is the decision of proximity made. ----- Original Message ----- From: "JC Dill" <nanog () vo cnchost com> To: <nanog () merit edu> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 4:23 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt
On 12:45 AM 10/26/2001 -0700, James Thomason wrote: >(We are of course, ignoring the fact that this is an "attack" not a >"request" or a "probe", or some other form of well intentioned traffic.) I don't like using the term "well intentioned". Spammers repeatedly claim that they have good intentions when they send spam, because *some* people supposedly like getting their unsolicited email. It's not enough to have good intentions, you MUST put yourself in the shoes of the recipient and
of
those who transit your packets and see how THEY feel about the traffic before you can be said to have "good intentions" about sending it off. And that's what got Digital Island into this mess. They didn't really
stop
to think about what level of probe qualifies as unintrusive and "good intentioned" from the point of the recipient, only from their end as the entity that desires to send the probe. Because it's good for their needs, they assume the other end will see the "joint benefit" and not be bothered. But they were (obviously) wrong. Now that they know, they need to pull back and redesign their probes from point of view that is more sensitive to the needs and concerns of the recipient. For a start, they shouldn't probe any network that hasn't (yet) requested any content from them. Then, if they probe in response to a content request, the probe should SAY THAT so the recipient understands the mutual benefit. Finally, the procedure for stopping the probes needs to be reconfigured for ease of use for the recipient who wants it stopped NOW, not for the convenience of DI. jc
Current thread:
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt, (continued)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt James Thomason (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Ian Cooper (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Wojtek Zlobicki (Oct 26)
- RE: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Mike Batchelor (Oct 26)
- RE: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Mike Batchelor (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Scott Francis (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt James Thomason (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Paul Vixie (Oct 28)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt JC Dill (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Wojtek Zlobicki (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Ian Cooper (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Pete Kruckenberg (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Scott Francis (Oct 26)
- RE: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Mike Batchelor (Oct 26)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Gregory Urban (Oct 29)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Wojtek Zlobicki (Oct 29)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 29)
- RE: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Christopher J. Wolff (Oct 25)
- RE: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Dave Stewart (Oct 25)
- Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt? Wojtek Zlobicki (Oct 25)