From: Florian Weimer [mailto:f...@deneb.enyo.de] > > * David Hubbard: > > > Residential computers with enough bandwidth to DoS > > hosting providers; that should be fun. > > How is this different from a typical dorm network? > (Perhaps with all that P2P filtering software in place, > it's a mere self-DoS nowadays, but the analogy was not > that far off five years ago or so, with less bandwidth, > of course.) >
Three colleges I've worked at were pretty progressive in their monitoring, rate limiting and proactive management of dorm networks; i.e. full bandwidth to campus, i2, etc. destinations but maybe not to other remote locations, automated responses to bad behavior characteristics, etc. I'm far less worried about someone in a dorm launching a full gig of http requests against one IP than a residential computer doing that for 36 hours before someone from Google takes note. If they manage the broadband abuse they way they do gmail forum spammers, I don't have high hopes. David
