Re: Akamai

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

Might as well toss in egress filtering to prvent many of the abuses of
spoofing that happen in the present env of the internet.  The ISP and
others will claim that this is far too costly for their routers to handle,
but, for the vast majority of sites, this is likely to not be as costly as
the network folks are claiming as a way to avoid doing a tad bit more work
in their router configs.  Some of the worst sites for spoofing abuses, and
those that have networkies that will complain the loudest, are the .edu's.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

                [SNIP]

> >
> If networks simply took responsibility for the traffic that comes from
> them, this problem wouldn't exist.  It's completely trivial to find
> infected hosts on a network through passive monitoring.  They should then
> be disconnected until they are properly cleaned and secured.
>
> Unless networks begin doing this routinely (including ISPs), legislation
> will be introduced to "solve" the problem, and then we will all be much
> worse off.  There's nothing like a law to completely screw things up.
>
> Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
> Adjunct Information Security Officer
> The University of Texas at Dallas
> AVIEN Founding Member
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