With all due respect, we have a *problem*. End user machines on
broadband connections are being misconfigured and/or compromised in
frightening numbers. These machines are being used for everything
from IRC flooder to spam engines, to DNS servers to massive DDoS
infrastructure. If the ability of a teenager to launch a gb/s DDoS,
or of someone DoSing mailservers off the internet with a trojan that
contains a spam engine is not operational, perhaps it's just me
that's confused.
Why don't you come to the next NANOG in Miami
in February and give a presentation on how people
are doing these things? The trouble with a mailing
list discussion is that it wanders all over the place.
But at NANOG you could focus on the network
operational issues of these networks of compromised
machines.
--Michael Dillon