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Re: AW: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:43:44 -0400

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:30:48 CDT, Gadi Evron said:

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Dean Anderson wrote:
You are approaching the problem the wrong way. Many failover systems
work very well when the primary fails entirely--when the salesman pulls
the plug.  Few work well when the primary doesn't entirely fail, but
just doesn't work correctly, as is usually the case in the real world.

Such as? How does it apply to the network world?

What, you never had a BGP session to a peer router that lied through its
teeth about its other interfaces being up, so you didn't fallover to
an alternate route? :)

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