RE: DOS attack tracing

["Chris Ranch" <CRanch () Affinity com>]

On Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:06 AM, Suresh wrote:
> On 5/10/05, Hannigan, Martin <hannigan () verisign com> wrote:
> > DDOS' is rather infrequent to zero for most enterprises. That DDOS 
> > golden banana is rather yummy with sprinkles on top. Don't get me 
> > wrong, the DDOS problem is real, but not for everyone, and not as 
> > frequently as it's being hyped up to be. A managed service 
> is a better 
> > way to go if they're worried, IMO.
>
> There's also the "minimze risk" thing .. take a conscious 
> business decision not to host one of the typical DDoS magnets 
> (dont allow people to run IRC bots on your colo farm, for example)

Dumping our IRC customers dropped our DDoS frequency by an order of
magnitude.  We've certainly slept better as a result.

Chris
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Chris Ranch
Director of Network Architecture
Affinity Internet, Inc.