In fairness to the PlanetLab folks, I did get a response to my original ticket and someone from NANOG also contacted me after my post. I do appreciate that. I will repeat that the traffic is not malicious, but it might be a more friendly policy to allow network operators to automatically opt-out of that environment if desired. Since we have some semblance of clue it was obvious within 30 seconds that this was an academic research network at play, and only took another 15 seconds to figure out that it was PlanetLab, so just let me add my subnets to a database which then prevents the "uber cluster" from including those subnets when generating experimental traffic. Another option might be to clearly state which prefixes the traffic may originate from so operators can filter accordingly. The cluster is pretty widespread so I realize that might not be very practical. Simply assuming that we won't mind having PlanetLab researchers using our assets as a lab isn't terribly cool. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com
wrote:
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Drew Linsalata <drew.linsalata@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone else had to deal with this, or is anyone connected to that
people get dos'd (or think they do, not you in this case) regularly.
particular project listening? Im all for academic projects, but the approach here is rubbing me the wrong way.
normally their support arm had been helpful... in the past at least I'd gotten responses :(