[116216] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T. Layer 6-8 needed.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Pitcock)
Mon Jul 27 01:42:29 2009
From: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
To: Shon Elliott <shon@unwiredbb.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A6D197C.6070808@unwiredbb.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:38:20 -0500
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org >> nanog" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 20:05 -0700, Shon Elliott wrote:
> There has been alot of customers on our network who were complaining about ACK
> scan reports coming from 207.126.64.181. We had no choice but to block that
> single IP until the attacks let up. It was a decision I made with the gentleman
> that owns the colo facility currently hosts 4chan. There was no other way around
> it. I'm sure AT&T is probably blocking it for the same reason. 4chan has been
> under attack for over 3 weeks, the attacks filling up an entire GigE. If you
> want to blame anyone, blame the script kiddies who pull this kind of stunt.
...have you ever heard of forged packet headers? Just saying.
William
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