Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org

[Michael Hallgren <m.hallgren () free fr>]

Le mercredi 04 janvier 2012 à 20:18 +0000, bmanning () vacation karoshi com
a écrit :
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:10:13PM -0500, George, Wes wrote:
> > > From: Wessels, Duane [mailto:dwessels () verisign com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 1:41 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org
> > >
> > >
> > > The brief problem in accessing www.nanog.org was due to numerous
> > > parallel
> > > downloads of a large video file by a single source IP address.  We have
> > > no reason to believe it was malicious in intent, but the offender has
> > > been
> > > blocked anyway.
> >
> > [WEG] In the lovely CGN future, not only will you see this type of behavior (multiple pulls from the same IP) all 
> > of the time, your response to block it would have taken tens or hundreds of users out of service simultaneously.
> > /troll
> >
> > Not meant to fault your response, merely to point out yet one more way that CGN is likely to break things where an 
> > assumption of 1 IP = 1 user/host/network exists.
> >
> > Wes George
>
>       Hum... thats not how I read Duanes response at all.. I thought they blocked
>       the (excessively) large video file from download... :)

Depends of how we (are supposed to) interpret ``the offender has been
blocked anyway'' :)

Cheers,
mh
> /bill