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Re: DOS attack tracing

  • From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
  • Date: Tue May 10 08:07:45 2005
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On 5/10/05, Hannigan, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> DDOS' is rather infrequent to zero for most enterprises. That DDOS
> golden banana is rather yummy with sprinkles on top. Don't get me wrong,
> the DDOS problem is real, but not for everyone, and not as frequently as
> it's being hyped up to be. A managed service is a better way
> to go if they're worried, IMO.

There's also the "minimze risk" thing .. take a conscious business
decision not to host one of the typical DDoS magnets (dont allow
people to run IRC bots on your colo farm, for example)

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Suresh Ramasubramanian ([email protected])