Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

2020-03-16 Thread Eric M. Carroll
I suggest the NANOG community needs to actively recognize this risks becoming the largest north american wide test of mass work from home that has happened since I got involved in the public internet back in 1986. It may also drive some permanent changes in traffic patterns as high volume remote

Enforcing Source Integrity: BCP38 and Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Eric M. Carroll
The root cause of high scale directed amplification attacks is the failure to assure the integrity of the source IP address. This failure leads to a large set of directed amplification attack vectors. BCP38 was written in 2000, coming up on its 13th anniversary. This root cause, and various