Re: Arbor Reports 540Gbps "Sustained" Attack

2016-09-01 Thread Maxwell Cole
Heya. I can’t speak with any evidence but I do have some infrastructure in Brazil and I can tell you I saw stubbornly persistent packet loss for the past two months. Across at least two tier one backbones. I don’t know anything about 500Gbps but large sustained DDoSes against BR locations for

Re: Google GeoIP issue

2016-06-02 Thread Maxwell Cole
Heya, Im in the same boat if anyone from google wants to be a dear and help out. Cheers, > On Jun 1, 2016, at 6:28 PM, Chris Boyd wrote: > > I too am having a similar problem. Used the remediation link at > https://support.google.com/websearch/contact/ip and it’s

Re: Thank you, Comcast.

2016-02-26 Thread Maxwell Cole
Thats not really a fair comparison, I think a lot of people have issues with people censoring/controlling/prioritizing internet access to make money. Its a somewhat more nuanced conversation when you are talking about doing the same thing to prevent abuse. Cheers, Max > On Feb 26, 2016, at

Re: Thank you, Comcast.

2016-02-26 Thread Maxwell Cole
I agree, At the very least things like SNMP/NTP should be blocked. I mean how many people actually run a legit NTP server out of their home? Dozens? And the people who run SNMP devices with the default/common communities aren’t the ones using it. If the argument is that you need a Business

Re: Last-call DoS/DoS Attack BCOP

2015-03-24 Thread Maxwell Cole
On 3/24/15 5:27 AM, Rob Seastrom wrote: John Kristoff j...@cymru.com writes: If the attack is an infrastructure attack, say a routing interface that wouldn't normally receive or emit traffic from its assigned address except perhaps for network connectivity testing (e.g. traceroute) or

Re: OT - Small DNS appliances for remote offices.

2015-02-18 Thread Maxwell Cole
+1 for the pi, The new model has a quad core and 1GB of ram which should be more than enough for a DNS. On 2/18/15 10:03 AM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote: Not industrial grade, but Raspberry Pis are pretty great for this kind of low-horsepower application. Throw 2 at each site for redundancy