RE: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS

["Terranson, Alif" <Alif.Terranson () savvis net>]

> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> > the packets as possible. Nebulous filtering and dropping of 
> > miniscule amounts of traffic in the core of a large network is 
> > just a waste of effort and false panacea.

Agreed.  

> uunet does operate lots of dialup RAS though correct? any 
> reason why urpf 
> is not reasonable there?

Nobody I know terminates a dial connection on a *core router* ;-)
//Alif

Alif Terranson
OpSec Engineering Mgr.
Operations Security Dept.
Savvis Communications Corp.
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