Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk?

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () outblaze com>]

Petri Helenius wrote:

> There is also a lot of "background Internet radiation" coming from p2p 
> applications which seem to remember their peers for a week or two. These 
> usually account for most of the unidirectional traffic knocking on doors 
> unanswered. (not counting large DDoS).

Martian packets, idiots who configure non rfc1918 ips into their LANs 
and then leak these out to the world, random spoofed source address 
traffic and/or DDoS traffic as you say (insert bcp 38 thread here) - all 
far more common than they ought to be.

But junk p2p applications written by people who can read /. far better 
than they can code, and who will be first up against the wall when the 
coding revolution begins, is definitely the major factor.

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