[100077] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to Handle ISPs Who Turn a Blind Eye to Criminal Activity?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lewinski)
Mon Oct 15 12:10:49 2007
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:59:38 -0600
From: Mike Lewinski <mike@rockynet.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <87sl4cv35l.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Florian Weimer wrote:
> Part of the reason why this discussion is somewhat heated is that
> there's zero incentive in most markets to deal with customer
> compromises.
We have observed that compromised hosts on our network have a very good
chance of becoming the targets of DDoS attacks. So my staff is trained
to treat each abuse report as a potentially compromised computer "crying
out for help" and we've been through enough multi-gigabit DDoS to know
what the real pain factor is, and hence don't let them fester.
