Yeah thats pretty much my opinion too. I'm interested to see if there's anyone on the other side of the fence. Dean On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 04:11:25PM -0800, Josh Bailey wrote:
IMHO;
I am wary of vigilante-style enforcement of this sort of thing developing - people putting up access lists, etc preemptively, against the "other guy" because in someone's opinion they didn't set up their network "correctly."
Joe Customer suddenly can't ping Jim Customer because in ISP A's opinion ISP B hasn't got it together. Which is worse, the DDOS or the "cure?"
Don't have a specific answer m'self. Just a bit wary of some of the possible "answers."
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