[116242] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T. Layer 6-8 needed.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Mon Jul 27 18:01:00 2009
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:00:05 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: "'nanog - n. am. network ops group list'" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D8EE8D5295A4E6C837103F209DBD799@Honkin>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Richard Bennett wrote:
>
> In the case of the ISPs and carriers who blocked access to 4chan for a while
> Sunday, since that was done in accordance with DDOS mitigation, there's not
> any issue as far as the FCC is concerned, but that hasn't prevented the
> usual parties from complaining about censorship, etc.
>
If someone came out and said "Hey, DDOS mitigation, please hold!" that
would be cool, too. Based on the content of 4chan, it's either DDOS or
someone cried about the content. It looked like the latter.
~Seth
