UDP/123 policers & status

[roland.dobbins at netscout.com (Roland Dobbins)]

On 21 Mar 2020, at 4:58, Hal Murray wrote:

> I don't want to start a flame war, but why isn't BCP 38 widely 
> deployed?  Can
> somebody give me a pointer to a talk at NANOG or such?  What fraction 
> of the
> world does implement BCP 38?
>
> I'd also be interested in general background info on DDoS.  Who is 
> DDoS-ing
> whom and/or why?  Is this gamers trying to get an advantage on a 
> competitor?
> Bad guys making a test run to see if the server can be used for a real 
> run?
> Is DDoS software widely available on the dark web?  ...

Answers to all of these questions are readily available via search 
engines, searching the archive of this and related listservs, searching 
the presentation archives of 
NANOG/RIPE/APRICOT/APNIC/AusNOG/NZNOG/LACNIC, et. al.  My archive of 
public presentations is available here:

<https://app.box.com/s/4h2l6f4m8is6jnwk28cg>

These topics are well-understood and -documented, and a bit of research 
can help bring one up to speed on them pretty quickly.

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Roland Dobbins <roland.dobbins at netscout.com>