[187767] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thank you, Comcast.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paras Jha)
Thu Feb 25 22:52:36 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1341162075.13611.1456458371134.JavaMail.mhammett@ThunderFuck>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 22:52:34 -0500
From: Paras Jha <paras@protrafsolutions.com>
To: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
It's interesting that they'd call about DNS amplification... You don't
typically see DNS amplified floods coming from home ISPs. I would imagine
SSDP amplification is a far greater issue for any home ISP.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
> I know. It seems odd, doesn't it?
>
> They're actually suspending people's accounts for DNS amplification. My
> aunt got a call about it tonight. I had already firewalled that off on her
> router before they called, but they're doing it. There's more that they
> could do I'm sure, but they're doing it. Maybe it's flooding their upstream
> causing other service issues.... but they're doing it.
>
> So many others aren't doing much at all.
>
>
>
>
> -----
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
>
> Midwest-IX
> http://www.midwest-ix.com
>
