Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

It's completely reasonable when the world at large is only secondary to the local, on-net operations. 




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----- Original Message -----

From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins () arbor net> 
To: "nanog list" <nanog () nanog org> 
Sent: Sunday, August 2, 2015 10:50:05 AM 
Subject: Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour 

On 2 Aug 2015, at 22:44, Dave Pooser wrote: 

> I wonder if that would be a reason for the relatively anemic 1Gb 
> Internet 
>
> pipe-- making sure that a DDoS couldn't push enough packets through to 
> inconvenience the LAN party. 

While increasing bandwidth is not a viable DDoS defense tactic, 
decreasing it isn't one, either. 

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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () arbor net>