Re: Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites H.R.3817

2009-11-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jeffrey Lyon: > Net neutrality suffers another blow. I liked Congress when they had no > idea what the internet was, now they've progressed to "still have no > idea but like to pretend." Our company is most likely not the owner of the site associated with this domain. Please do not cont

Re: Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing in dealing with DDoS

2009-11-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Stefan Fouant: > Obviously the cloud is no different than any other infrastructure insofar as > implementing protection mechanisms. It's different in one aspect, though: you don't know with whom you're sharing your toothbrush. To some extent, this is true for other infrastructure as well (even

Re: Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing in dealing with DDoS

2009-11-06 Thread Florian Weimer
* Stefan Fouant: > Which is why vendors selling DDoS mitigation equipment will always tell you > to get a 15lb. bag first. ;) Their solutions work, but only if you got a > bag big enough to store a lot of crap. Not all attacks involve saturated pipes. There used to be anti-DDoS vendors whose bo