Comment by Joel_Mckay

18 days ago

It is funnier if you've ever dealt with mystery packet runts, as most network appliances still do not handle them very cleanly.

UDP/QUIC can DoS any system not based on a cloud deployment large enough to soak up the peak traffic. It is silly, but it pushes out any hosting operation that can't reach a disproportionate bandwidth asymmetry with the client traffic. i.e. fine for FAANG, but a death knell for most other small/medium organizations.

This is why many LAN still drop most UDP traffic, and rate-limit the parts needed for normal traffic. Have a nice day =3