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Re: did facebook just DoS me?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Palmer)
Tue Apr 4 21:34:34 2017

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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 11:34:25 +1000
From: Matt Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 09:47:23PM -0300, Kurt Kraut wrote:
> But one of my collegues quickly realized the incoming MAC ADDRESS was the
> actual Facebook router we have a peering at a internet exchange. So indeed
> the traffic came from their network.

If you've got a bilateral peering session with Facebook, presumably you have
some sort of technical contact there that you can reach out to and ask
"WTF?".  That would seem to be a good first step.

- Matt


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