On Dec 8, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Jay Coley wrote: > This has been our recent experience as well.
I see a link-filling attacks with some regularity; but again, what I'm saying is simply that they aren't as prevalent as they used to be, because the attackers don't *need* to fill links in order to achieve their goals, in many cases. That being said, high-bandwidth DNS reflection/amplification attacks tip the scales, every time. > Lastly there is usually always someone at the other end of these attacks > watching what is working and what is not This is a very important point - determined attackers will observe and react in order to try and defeat successful countermeasures, so the defenders must watch for shifting attack vectors. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Sell your computer and buy a guitar.
