It's completely reasonable when the world at large is only secondary to the local, on-net operations.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobb...@arbor.net> To: "nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Sunday, August 2, 2015 10:50:05 AM Subject: Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour On 2 Aug 2015, at 22:44, Dave Pooser wrote: > I wonder if that would be a reason for the relatively anemic 1Gb > Internet > > pipe-- making sure that a DDoS couldn't push enough packets through to > inconvenience the LAN party. While increasing bandwidth is not a viable DDoS defense tactic, decreasing it isn't one, either. ----------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net>