[141320] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ipv6 day DDoS threat?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Eisenberg)
Tue Jun 7 15:10:59 2011
From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:04:54 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4DEE7120.8000406@jolokianetworks.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We got the same call. I think they just trolled on through the IPv6Day par=
ticipants list. They indicated that we were likely to be 'specifically tar=
geted' as a result of 'putting ourselves out there'. I suspect it's merely=
a misprogrammed sales drone spewing fear-infused garbage.
The caller claimed to represent Verisign (though we took no steps to verify=
that claim). If anyone from Verisign is on the list, you may want to look=
into this, especially if this is actually coming from one of your employee=
s.
Nathan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Pace [mailto:pace@jolokianetworks.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 11:43 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: ipv6 day DDoS threat?
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> I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave un-na=
med
> for the moment. They said that they heard specific "chatter"
> about DDoS of IPv6 day participant sites and even more specifically about=
our
> website. Of course they have also offered to assist us in preventing thi=
s from
> affecting our site. I'm very skeptical about even calling said company a=
t this
> point. I'm really feeling like this is a shakedown and was wondering if =
anyone
> else had been approached in a similar fashion?
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> Mark Pace
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