[115836] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Request for contact and procedure information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan White)
Fri Jul 10 09:12:48 2009
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:10:12 -0500
From: Dan White <dwhite@olp.net>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
In-Reply-To: <4A56B735.1040805@rollernet.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Seth Mattinen wrote:
> Dan White wrote:
>
>> Have you spoken with your provider? They should be giving you options,
>> like changing your static address, or null routing the attackers
>> upstream, or perhaps blocking port 80 to you, to limit your ingress
>> traffic.
>>
>>
>
> For DSL? I've never had that kind of luck with SBC's (now AT&T) home
> products, and I've been using their DSL since 2001. This is one instance
> where paying the big bucks for at least a T1 can show some some return.
> Even if it's "business DSL" it's still treated the same as "drooling
> user DSL".
>
> Purely my personal experience.
>
> ~Seth
>
>
I guess complaining that your provider won't do anything to help you,
and not calling them to find out otherwise is a self fulfilling prophecy.
- Dan
