[110733] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Jan 14 13:23:06 2009
To: William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:47:23 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:22:55 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:47:23 EST, William Herrin said:
> It's more like one owner in a condominium deciding to "test" the fire
> alarm without first asking the condo association or letting the other
> owners know about it ahead of time.
On the other hand, pre-announcing "We will have a fire drill at 8PM Thursday"
doesn't do a whole lot to measure the response effectiveness - everybody
will start getting their shoes and coats on at 7:55PM.
And yes, it applies in the network world as well. When we pre-announce "We
will be doing network scans from IP address w.x.y.z", we have a lot of users
who will just blindly firewall off that IP rather than fixing their real issue
they know the scan will detect...
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