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Re: Lazy Engineers and Viable Excuses

  • From: Edward Lewis
  • Date: Tue Aug 26 12:39:52 2003 
At 19:08 -0400 8/25/03, Haesu wrote:

 Managing a filter list on one or a few route-servers rather than an
AS with hundred edge routers is so much time saving and less humanerror-prone.
But balance that with keep the path from filter list to route-server short too - because if you need to adjust a filter list in response to a network (or utility) emergency, you want to make sure the data is available.

(Based on experience with a project researching DDOS response. We relied on certificates distributed by a DNS server. When the flood was released, accessing DNS became impossible - the security system drowned in the flood.)
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