[27095] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Payne)
Wed Feb 9 06:24:16 2000
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 11:17:34 +0000
From: John Payne <john+nanog@flea.ibm.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20000209111734.C58686@noc.ibm.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
In-Reply-To: <20000209120242L.he@runit.sintef.no>; from Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no on Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:02:42PM +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:02:42PM +0100, Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:
> May I suggest that we all get off our collective butts and do
> something about these items? Even by going so far as to proactively
> probe our customer networks and/or extracting info from the list
> available from the above site?
... and actively use the logs to contact peers when they're used as amplifiers
against you, rather than just filtering?
Does anyone have a CIDR to broadcast address script handy?
(the network address is part of the CIDR format :-)
--
John Payne jcapayne@att.com
OpenNet Infrastructure Team, AT&T Global Network Services
Mailpt C2E, c/o IBM North Harbour, PO Box 41 Portsmouth, PO6 3AU
Tel - +44 (0)23 9256 1977, Fax - 23 9221 0543
