[175919] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reporting DDOS reflection attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Sat Nov 8 05:14:24 2014
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From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 17:14:02 +0700
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On 8 Nov 2014, at 17:09, McDonald Richards wrote:
> Any failure or success stories you can share?
In my experience, it's the generally broadband access operators who will
sometimes respond, when contacted about reflection/amplification attacks
leveraging misconfigured, abusable CPE.
Generally speaking, networks running misconfigured, abusable devices by
definition aren't very actively managed - and so those operators don't
often respond, unless one has personal contacts within the relevant
group(s).
YMMV, of course.
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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
