Meanwhile, mandate that cable modem and DSL providers must validate outgoing IP addresses. Turn on fair queueing at major bandwidth drop points.
Attacks from DSL & Cable modems are lame compared to what you get from hijacked M$ servers at university's. But DOS attacks exist due to ignorance of the gatekeepers, regardless of the source.
blah blah blah... about it. Explain to them that the ISP was under attack, and they'll go into paranoid ramblings of 'being hacked', all while screaming for handouts of free service and refunds.
It's pretty obvious that you've 'been there'. I too, have suffered the wounds of some decent DOS attacks. You know you've got a problem when you're being hammered with about a million packets of crap a minute from over a dozen university servers from Europe and the U.S. Both you and your backbone provider better be adept at packet filtering.
DOS Lessons are:
1) College campus servers/networks are, in general, operated by incompetent boobs that would not survive in the business world. 90% of our DOS attacks come from college servers. Just add some script kiddies & stir.
2) An ISP better be able to properly respond to a DOS attack. Know how to packet filter and know how to set ICMP rate limits. If you can't do this and you get repeatedly hammered, your customers will blame you & go elsewhere. Isn't that how this thread began??
-Phoenix
"From the ashes of a burnt bit bucket...."
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In a free market system, monopolies NATURALLY result from good business practices.
There is nothing natural about what is happening in this industry. While so many are focusing on these large companies, they're failing to observe the actions of small towns and cities across the U.S. Lets take a little history lesson...
A city awards an Exclusive license to a cable ooperator (government awarded monopoly). The cable company underperforms without competition forcing improvements. The city observes the poor performance and decides that THEY can do a much better job - despite having created the problem in the first place via elimination of free-market forces. While they're at it, they realize "Hey, with all this fiber we're running, we can also generate revenue by doing high-speed internet". The local businesses (ISPs) in that area go to the city and say "Hey, how about you help foster broadband by permitting the local ISPs to lease use of this fiber?" What a great way for the city to encourage and support the local businesses. Nahhh can't do that, they smell revenue! So the city is now in business against cable companies and it's own local ISPs.
The governments created a monopoly; didn't like the result and decided to become a broadband monopoly in their own right. People are so busy looking at the "big boys" that they're missing what so many of the small towns and cities across the U.S. are doing. Municipalities are quietly attempting to turn broadband internet into a monopolized utility just like they have with Municipal power - another government created monopoly. Everyone's eye is on the "big boys" without watching what "big brother" is doing.
Today spam is not that bad, but if we don't react now, it may be that bad five years from now.
Not bad?? We move about a million emails a day. Of those million messages, approximately a third are identified as SPAM by postini spam filters (user configurable). I think that can be classified as a bad .
But of course, 4 kilograms is only something like 9 pounds. So there's no way they could make it do anything useful at that weight.
Exactly how much does a useful satellite weigh??
I've heard rumors of weight affecting usefulness when talking about steaks, but not satellites. Re-tooling logic, I'm guessing my palm is worthless but I'm personally an invaluable replacement to mankind!!:)
The stupidity of this ruling can't be clearer. If it would prevail, the same logic would need applied to telephones, automobiles, knifes and virtually any other product that *may* be used to commit a crime. You gotta wonder what law school this judge graduated from.
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Attacks from DSL & Cable modems are lame compared to what you get from hijacked M$ servers at university's. But DOS attacks exist due to ignorance of the gatekeepers, regardless of the source.
-Phoenix
It's pretty obvious that you've 'been there'. I too, have suffered the wounds of some decent DOS attacks. You know you've got a problem when you're being hammered with about a million packets of crap a minute from over a dozen university servers from Europe and the U.S. Both you and your backbone provider better be adept at packet filtering.
DOS Lessons are:
1) College campus servers/networks are, in general, operated by incompetent boobs that would not survive in the business world. 90% of our DOS attacks come from college servers. Just add some script kiddies & stir.
2) An ISP better be able to properly respond to a DOS attack. Know how to packet filter and know how to set ICMP rate limits. If you can't do this and you get repeatedly hammered, your customers will blame you & go elsewhere. Isn't that how this thread began??
-Phoenix
"From the ashes of a burnt bit bucket...."
There is nothing natural about what is happening in this industry. While so many are focusing on these large companies, they're failing to observe the actions of small towns and cities across the U.S. Lets take a little history lesson...
A city awards an Exclusive license to a cable ooperator (government awarded monopoly). The cable company underperforms without competition forcing improvements. The city observes the poor performance and decides that THEY can do a much better job - despite having created the problem in the first place via elimination of free-market forces. While they're at it, they realize "Hey, with all this fiber we're running, we can also generate revenue by doing high-speed internet". The local businesses (ISPs) in that area go to the city and say "Hey, how about you help foster broadband by permitting the local ISPs to lease use of this fiber?" What a great way for the city to encourage and support the local businesses. Nahhh can't do that, they smell revenue! So the city is now in business against cable companies and it's own local ISPs.
The governments created a monopoly; didn't like the result and decided to become a broadband monopoly in their own right. People are so busy looking at the "big boys" that they're missing what so many of the small towns and cities across the U.S. are doing. Municipalities are quietly attempting to turn broadband internet into a monopolized utility just like they have with Municipal power - another government created monopoly. Everyone's eye is on the "big boys" without watching what "big brother" is doing.
NetPhoenix
Not bad?? We move about a million emails a day. Of those million messages, approximately a third are identified as SPAM by postini spam filters (user configurable). I think that can be classified as a bad .
-NetPhoenix
Exactly how much does a useful satellite weigh?? I've heard rumors of weight affecting usefulness when talking about steaks, but not satellites. Re-tooling logic, I'm guessing my palm is worthless but I'm personally an invaluable replacement to mankind!! :)
Phoenix
The stupidity of this ruling can't be clearer. If it would prevail, the same logic would need applied to telephones, automobiles, knifes and virtually any other product that *may* be used to commit a crime. You gotta wonder what law school this judge graduated from.