[191367] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Defensive" BGP hijacking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ca By)
Sun Sep 11 19:51:44 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <D570BAA4-792D-48B1-910E-50210BDD0D9A@slabnet.com>
From: Ca By <cb.list6@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 16:51:38 -0700
To: Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sunday, September 11, 2016, Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com> wrote:
> Hopefully this is operational enough, though obviously leaning more
> towards the policy side of things:
>
> What does nanog think about a DDoS scrubber hijacking a network "for
> defensive purposes"?
Not ok.
Never.
>
> http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/alleged-vdos-proprietors-arrested-in-
> israel/
>
> "For about six hours, we were seeing attacks of more than 200 Gbps hittin=
g
> us,=E2=80=9D Townsend explained. =E2=80=9CWhat we were doing was for defe=
nsive purposes. We
> were simply trying to get them to stop and to gather as much information =
as
> possible about the botnet they were using and report that to the proper
> authorities.=E2=80=9D
>
> --
> Hugo Slabbert | email, xmpp/jabber: hugo@slabnet.com <javascript:;>
> pgp key: B178313E | also on Signal
