[108597] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DDoS Attack in Progress.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew D Kirch)
Sat Oct 11 15:36:17 2008
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:35:44 -0400
From: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
To: Steve Church <nanog@headcandy.org>
In-Reply-To: <ec57bf890810110722w1e358b63v211da537d4894320@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Steve Church wrote:
> Beavis aka John Lopez:
> I, for one, am glad you're interested in stopping the abuse at its source.
> Thank you.
>
> Steve Linford:
>
>> why not ACL the source at your router or at whatever device is being
>>
> (packeted).
> Mr. Lopez is contributing to the welfare of the net as a whole by addressing
> the cause, rather than applying a bandage locally to lessen the symptom. I
> sincerely hope your dismissive advice is not characteristic of Spamhaus
> policy regarding abused hosts, considering the mission statement at the top
> of your homepage.
>
> Steve Church
Come on, even I think Steve Linford's bonafides are strong enough that
this was uncalled for.
Andrew
