On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:16:33AM -0500, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
This is useful, and would make for an interesting NANOG presentation. On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:42:20AM -0500, Alex Pilosov wrote:
Read: DDoS targets which bring no cash revenue, essentially loss-leaders.
You'd be surprised much much publicity (and in turn, legitimate business) hosting an IRC server has brought various providers. But that's beyond the scope of this discussion.
That doesn't quite work when ebay.com is being DDoSed [...]
Nope, nor is it really intended to. What it will do is, help protect smaller hosts/networks targeted by less determined DDoS kiddies -- the type who'll realize "d'oh, I can't reach this anymore!" and move on to to their next target. And if nothing else, it will protect smaller people w/ 95% burstable pipes, whose upstreams aren't willing lend a hand when they're under attack, from having their monthly bandwidth bills skyrocket. -adam