RE: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

[Drew Weaver <drew.weaver () thenap com>]

I would say that > 99% of the attacks that we see are 'link fillers' with < 1% being an application attack.

thanks,
-Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: Dobbins, Roland [mailto:rdobbins () arbor net] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:41 AM
To: North American Operators' Group
Subject: Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?


On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:36 PM, Thomas Mangin wrote:

> If you are a smaller network, you need the filtering to be performed by your transit provider, as your uplink will 
> otherwise be congested.

Actually, most DDoS attacks aren't link-flooding attacks - this hasn't been true for the last ~7 years or so.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, because it does, and sometimes quite spectacularly - but in most cases, the attackers 
don't have to flood the link to achieve their desired goal.

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