Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:10:13PM -0500, George, Wes wrote:
> > From: Wessels, Duane [mailto:dwessels () verisign com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 1:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org
> >
> >
> > The brief problem in accessing www.nanog.org was due to numerous
> > parallel
> > downloads of a large video file by a single source IP address.  We have
> > no reason to believe it was malicious in intent, but the offender has
> > been
> > blocked anyway.
>
> [WEG] In the lovely CGN future, not only will you see this type of behavior (multiple pulls from the same IP) all of 
> the time, your response to block it would have taken tens or hundreds of users out of service simultaneously.
> /troll
>
> Not meant to fault your response, merely to point out yet one more way that CGN is likely to break things where an 
> assumption of 1 IP = 1 user/host/network exists.
>
> Wes George

        Hum... thats not how I read Duanes response at all.. I thought they blocked
        the (excessively) large video file from download... :)

/bill