[AusNOG] AWS sites inaccessciible

[Mark Newton]

On 15 Jun 2016, at 10:16 AM, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> (I don't think there is any excuse for terse error messages or just
> error codes anymore - it's 2016, we have plenty of CPU, RAM and
> bandwidth so we can afford to help make troubleshooting easier and
> quicker. The developer seconds saved by being terse can multiply into
> 100s of hours of lost time to the developer's end-users, in particular
> for Internet scale services like Akamai et. al.)

That really depends on the extent to which more detailed error messages can be
used as a signal to attackers to either add more agents on more networks, or 
back off, to remain underneath triggering thresholds, doesn’t it?

  - mark