[12778] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Denial of service attacks apparently from UUNET Netblocks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Wed Oct 8 02:18:57 1997
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: woods@weird.com
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 22:06:03 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0xIp75-00076uC@most.weird.com> from "Greg A. Woods" at Oct 8, 97 01:56:51 am
Reply-To: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Greg A. Woods sez:
> > Thus, we have no usefull caller identification for those lines.
>
> OUCH!
>
> I guess that would mean you'd have to subpoena call detail records for
> those lines from BellSouth if you ever wanted to find out who really
> called them. Those lines could be oh-so-useful to a cracker with access
> to somone else's dial-out modems....
Difficult. MUDS are really tough [or were.... my knowledge may be
out of date] to pry out of RBOC's.
Word to the wise, folks.. If you EVER have cause to seek same,
move IMMEDIATELY. They are the equivalent of /tmp and flushed
in a day or so. You'll likely need the Feebs or such to
get anywhere.
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