13 Nov
2003
13 Nov
'03
8:55 p.m.
Maybe I am exceptionally naive, but are DDOSes *REALLY* that consistent between providers to affect month-over-month or quarterly ratios?
yes. because if you're a small provider then you only need a small flow to balance yourself. and the 95th percentile cuts both ways.
Depending on your value for "small", wouldn't the minimum traffic requirements for a major network peering relationship stymie this process? 95th percentile for 100-200 mb/s is one thing, 95th for 2-3 gb/s is very different [provider - provider peering, not total capacity]. Maybe I am overestimating peering coordinators here, but I'd like to think I know a few, and more than a few hundred mb/s of DDOS traffic has got to show up somewhere on the radar. DJ