[12742] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Denial of service attacks apparently from UUNET Netblocks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Tue Oct 7 15:18:04 1997
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us (Jay R. Ashworth)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 11:05:23 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: spork@inch.com, phil@charon.milepost.com, steve@nwnet.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971007145432.03468@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> from "Jay R. Ashworth" at Oct 7, 97 02:54:32 pm
Reply-To: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
> > I would not be surprised if the caller's phone number were logged, most
> > modern modem banks talk ANIS and DNIS, which if I'm remembering correctly
> > is basically caller ID.
> > doesn't seem to be an extra charge to get the data from the telco.
>
> ANI. Actually, it's commonly CNID, which is slightly more useful.
Just want to make sure all parties here do not think ANI == CNID.
They are different critters. You get CNID usually. Real time
ANI is available on 800 trunks, but at a cost.
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