Re: de-peering for security sake

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 05:43:56AM -0800, Ca By wrote:

I see a great deal of folks on nanog clamoring to buy ddos gear. Packets are starting to become like spam email, where 90% are pure rubbish, and us good guys have to spend a lot of money and time sorting signal from noise.

I've said this many times: abuse does not magically fall out of the sky. It comes from hosts, on networks, run by people. It is time -- well past time -- to hold those people *personally* acountable. Not doing so leaves us where we are today: millions -- heck, hundreds of millions -- of dollars are being spent on defenses THAT WOULD NOT BE NECESSARY if those people performed their jobs at a mere baseline level of competence and diligence. ---rsk