> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Hallgren [mailto:m.hallg...@free.fr] > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 1:11 PM > To: bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com > Cc: Wessels, Duane; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org > > Le mercredi 04 janvier 2012 à 20:18 +0000, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com > a écrit : > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:10:13PM -0500, George, Wes wrote: > > > > From: Wessels, Duane [mailto:dwess...@verisign.com] > > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 1:41 PM > > > > Subject: Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org > > > > > > > > > > > > The brief problem in accessing www.nanog.org was due to numerous > > > > parallel > > > > downloads of a large video file by a single source IP address. We have > > > > no reason to believe it was malicious in intent, but the offender has > > > > been > > > > blocked anyway. > > > > > > [WEG] In the lovely CGN future, not only will you see this type of > behavior (multiple pulls from the same IP) all of the time, your response to > block it would have taken tens or hundreds of users out of service > simultaneously. > > > /troll > > > > > > Not meant to fault your response, merely to point out yet one more way > that CGN is likely to break things where an assumption of 1 IP = 1 > user/host/network exists. > > > > > > Wes George > > > > Hum... thats not how I read Duanes response at all.. I thought they > blocked > > the (excessively) large video file from download... :) > > Depends of how we (are supposed to) interpret ``the offender has been > blocked anyway'' :) > > Cheers, > mh > > > > /bill > > > There was a single source IP with 200+ open, active http connections to a single large media file. The single IP address was blocked. The file itself is still available on the site.
Mike
