On 8 Dec 2010, at 15:40, Dobbins, Roland wrote:

> On Dec 8, 2010, at 10:36 PM, Thomas Mangin wrote:
> 
>> If you are a smaller network, you need the filtering to be performed by your 
>> transit provider, as your uplink will otherwise be congested.
> 
> Actually, most DDoS attacks aren't link-flooding attacks - this hasn't been 
> true for the last ~7 years or so.
> 
> I'm not saying it doesn't happen, because it does, and sometimes quite 
> spectacularly - but in most cases, the attackers don't have to flood the link 
> to achieve their desired goal.

Fair point. I never had to face any intelligent type of DDOS ... lucky me :)

Thomas

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