[20628] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Actions to quiet the Smurf amplifiers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Mon Oct 19 15:42:11 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:03:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
To: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810191735.MAA07012@whistler.intur.net>
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Phil Howard wrote:
> Dan Hollis wrote:
> > The last site I dealt with took _3 weeks_ to close their amplifiers once
> > they were notified. And this was a multimillion dollar publishing company.
> Wow, you sure get them to act quickly! How did you manage to get a big
> monstrous behemoth like "corporate america" to move that fast? :-)
They did nothing for two weeks, then their upstream threatened to pull
their connection.
If there were only some way to blackhole smurf amplifier routes
globally... sigh.
-Dan
