[169385] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The somewhat illegal fix for NTP attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Sat Feb 22 07:41:59 2014
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 07:41:29 -0500
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAPkb-7AdMQ=Kpy5_BDYOfQF++B0h693a0Jp5YjZ-DXaGtc9wyQ@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
It's never appropriate to respond to abuse with abuse. Not only is
it questionable/unprofessional behavior, but -- as we've seen -- there
is a high risk that it'll exacerbate the problem, often by targeting
innocent third parties.
I understand the frustration but this is not the way.
---rsk
