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Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS

  • From: Paul Vixie
  • Date: Sat Mar 06 18:05:38 2004 
[email protected] (Steve Francis) writes:

> ...
> But in the real world...given that you are going to be peering with ISPs 
> (or their upstreams) that do not do uRPF or anything at all on their 
> edges, ...

ok, i'll bite.  why do we still do this?  see the following from june 2001:

http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/historical/0106/msg00681.html

(and according to that text, it was a 9-year-old idea at that time.)

it's now 2004.  how much longer do we want to have this problem?
-- 
Paul Vixie