Re: Yahoo! Lessons Learned

[Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com>]

Dan Hollis <goemon () sasami anime net> wrote:

> The best penalty of all - simply pulling customer's plug till they fix
> their network, with a repeat offense resulting in permanent disconnection.

Heh. Engineering guys who try to do that very quickly find very irate
sales and management types screaming abuse at them :(

The DoS prevention functions (not letting directed bcast in, and not letting
forged addresses out) should be done at provider's side.

--vadim