[nsp-sec] Persistent and escalating DDoS against the Norwegian academic library system provider

Roland Dobbins rdobbins at arbor.net
Wed Apr 8 23:04:51 EDT 2015


On 9 Apr 2015, at 4:01, Rune Sydskjør wrote:

> it they are not available from outside of Norway it is not a huge 
> problem.

It isn't that simple - often, services/apps will require interaction 
with services/apps located both topologically and geographically far 
away.

Generalized rate-limiting based on destination IP does not help, it only 
makes the problem worse.

> I will give a hint to Bibsys if it's okay for you that I forward the 
> information?

Sure, just elide all mention of nap-sec.

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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net>


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