[116218] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T. Layer 6-8 needed.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (goemon@anime.net)
Mon Jul 27 02:00:42 2009
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:58:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: goemon@anime.net
To: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
In-Reply-To: <1248673100.5698.7.camel@petrie>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org >> nanog" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, William Pitcock wrote:
> 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.
everyone who *still* refuses to block spoofing should think hard about it.
you know who you are.
-Dan
