"who from my experience tend to be the least experienced and network knowledgeable people running a customer network"
Also most likely to have built their network from scratch out of pure need (perhaps for themselves) rather than someone cashing in on a trend. No offense meant (though surely someone took it) either way. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brielle Bruns" <br...@2mbit.com> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 9:48:24 AM Subject: Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey On 9/26/16 10:05 PM, Roland Dobbins wrote: > +1 for this capability in CPE. > > OTOH, it will be of no use whatsoever to the user. Providing the user > with access to anomalous traffic feeds won't help, either. > > Users aren't going to call in some third-party service/support company, > either. You start cutting off users or putting them into a walled garden until they fix their machines, and they will start caring. This will only work if all providers including cable, DSL and *shudders* WISPs (hate to be blunt, but who from my experience tend to be the least experienced and network knowledgeable people running a customer network) do it so customer's can't just switch networks and 'make the problem go away'. I use escalating price increases and delays in service/repair time on some of my consulting customers who do things I warned them to be more careful about. It takes time, but when $cost starts to become prohibitive, they stop and think. And the ones that never learn... Well, that's more $$$ in my pocket for the effort that I would normally charge otherwise. -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
