Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

Seth Mattinen wrote:

Jeffrey Lyon wrote:

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I respectfully disagree. Network engineers have to keep up with many tasks and preventing DoS/DDoS should be the responsibility of everyone. I see more folks worried about spam than they are actual security.

Back to my original question: is there really not a better solution?

This sounds a lot like the conversations which led to the creation of the original Realtime Blackhole List of spam sources. When was that, 1996? -- J.D. Falk Return Path Inc http://www.returnpath.net/