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Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

  • From: bdragon
  • Date: Mon Aug 04 17:30:09 2003 
> I'm all for raising the bar on attackers and having end networks implement
> proper source filtering, but even with that 1000 nt machines pinging 2
> packet per second is still enough to destroy a T1 customer, and likely
> with 1500 byte packets a T3 customer as well. You can't stop this without
> addressing the host security problem...

Do you believe backbone networks should do nothing?