[185504] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG list attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike)
Mon Oct 26 19:15:53 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:36:38 -0700
In-Reply-To: <562E7C51.509@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Larry,
Thank you for the work you and others do behind the scenes to make
the nanog list available and functional.
Mike-
On 10/26/2015 12:17 PM, Larry Blunk wrote:
> All,
> Just wanted to apologize for the attack over the weekend. The
> posts came from a email address that was subscribed to the list, so
> it was not subjected to moderation. While a filter was added
> to block further posts (which were made in a short time window),
> there were existing message queues that were not cleared in a
> timely basis.
>
> As Job Snijders (a fellow Communications Committee member) noted
> in an earlier post, we will be implementing some additional protection
> mechanisms to prevent this style of incident from happening again. We
> will be more aggressively moderating posts from addresses who have
> not posted recently, in addition to other filtering mechanisms.
>
> Regards,
> Larry Blunk
> NANOG Communications Committee
> Admins@nanog.org
>
>
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