[149303] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thanks & Let's Prevent this in the Future.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Wed Feb 1 04:14:52 2012
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:13:57 +0200
To: Kelvin Williams <kwilliams@altuscgi.com>,nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
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At 03:58 01/02/2012 -0500, Kelvin Williams wrote:
Those ISPs that are good network citizens have done it already. Those who
don't care and who haven't done it yet - won't do it in the future. The
only recourse you have is exactly what you have done.
-Hank
>How can we prevent anyone else from ever enduring this again? While we may
>never stop it from ever happening, spammers (that's what we got hit by
>today) are a dime a dozen and will do everything possible to hit an Inbox,
>so how can we establish a protocol to immediate mitigate the effects of an
>traffic-stopping advertisement?
>
>I thought registering with IRRs and up-to-date information in ARINs WHOIS
>was sufficient, apparently I was wrong. Not everyone respects them, but
>then again, they aren't very well managed (I've got several networks with
>antiquated information I've been unable to remove, it doesn't impair us
>normally, but its still there).
>
>What can we do? Better yet, how do we as a whole respond when we encounter
>upstream providers who refuse to look at the facts and allow another to
>stay down?
>
>kw
>
>--
>Kelvin Williams
>Sr. Service Delivery Engineer
>Broadband & Carrier Services
>Altus Communications Group, Inc.
>
>
>"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." --
>Abraham Maslow
