Re: QUIC traffic throttled on AT&T residential

[Ca By <cb.list6 () gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:41 AM Dave Bell <me () geordish org> wrote:

> Not indiscriminate.
> >
>
> Indiscriminate - done at random or without careful judgement.
>
> Considering that Daniel is complaining that QUIC is broken, it certainly
> seems like some network operators are subjecting all UDP traffic on their
> network to the same policers. This feels pretty indiscriminate to me.
>
> I'm all for policing the known baddies, such as CHARGEN and NTP, but to
> discard UDP for fun is like taking a sledgehammer where a scalpel will do.

For fun?

We are done here

Access networks need controls to maintain uptime against the non-stop
> > barrage of ddos attacks. I am sure you have seen the headlines and mails on
> > this list, ddos is hard to deal with. Access network will use whatever
> > tools are required to keep the pagers quiet and customers happy.
>
> I operate an access network that does not blanket police UDP. Google give
> me a dashboard that tell me 45% of requests  were served happily by QUIC,
> and I have no customers complaining about things not working, and our
> pagers are silent.