[116224] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: AT&T. Layer 6-8 needed.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kody Riker)
Mon Jul 27 02:32:14 2009
From: "Kody Riker" <kody@vaserv.com>
To: <trelane@trelane.net>,
"'William Pitcock'" <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A6D4859.4040106@trelane.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:31:18 -0400
Cc: "'nanog - n. am. network ops group list'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Seems that ATT has restored access to 4chan as confirmed on
http://www.centralgadget.com/att-blocking-access-to-portions-of-4chan-2336/
and on an IRC I happened to be idleing in.
--
Kody Riker
Level II
VAServ Ltd
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew D Kirch [mailto:trelane@trelane.net]
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 2:25 AM
To: William Pitcock
Cc: nanog - n. am. network ops group list
Subject: Re: AT&T. Layer 6-8 needed.
William Pitcock wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 23:15 -0700, Shon Elliott wrote:
>
>> Okay, so how do YOU block the attacks from eating up your bandwidth
>> and filling
>> up your logs without blocking the entire IP?
>>
>
> If I was AT&T, I would purchase DDoS filtering equipment and run it at
> edge where all of my traffic is peering anyway.
>
> This discussion is about AT&T, not you.
>
> William
>
While I agree, I certainly believe that due to the nature of some of the
content
on 4chan, AT&T can make a strong "Good Samaritan" claim under 47USC230.
There's
always TOR.
Andrew D Kirch
