If someone wanted to dispose of that volume of requests they could get assistance if they asked the right people.
Jared Mauch > On Nov 26, 2014, at 7:12 PM, Robert Edmonds <[email protected]> wrote: > > Warren Kumari wrote: >> This thingie has many aspects that look a bunch like AS112 -- I'm >> wondering if it makes sense to also request an AS number for this. >> It's not strictly needed, but having fewer inconsistent origin routes >> is always nice. >> >> It also seems that (also like AS112), networks could do this in one of >> (at least) 3 ways: >> 1: They can spin up this route purely within their own network -- >> basically have one or more places where the route points at null0 / >> discard and *not announce it to peers / customers* or >> 2: announce to customers only or >> 3: be good citizens and announce it to everyone. >> >> 1 and 2 already exist, for RTBH (like you mention in the doc), they >> are just not anycasted. I wonder if we ask the IANA nicely if they'd >> assign 666.666.666.0/24 to.. oh, bugger.... >> >> The more people who do this, the more benefit there is - unfortunately >> this argument often doesn't work on the Internets, but still worth >> trying... > > If one is trying to dispose of "250 million DNS requests per second" [0] > or "> 1Mr/s (mega-requests per second)" [1], then you probably *don't* > want the traffic to be routed to whoever happens to have announced it, > or anywhere, really. That seems to be a much different use case (drop > the traffic as quickly and universally as possible, minimizing > collateral damage) from routing the traffic to something like a > community sinkhole. > > [0] > http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/11/20/the-largest-cyber-attack-in-history-has-been-hitting-hong-kong-sites/ > > [1] > https://la51.icann.org/en/schedule/mon-tech/presentation-dafa888-dos-attack-13oct14-en.pdf > > -- > Robert Edmonds > _______________________________________________ > dns-operations mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations > dns-jobs mailing list > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
