[28339] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Above.net? ... vultures swoop in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reid Fishler)
Wed Apr 26 17:13:52 2000
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:09:55 -0400
To: Mark Kent <mark@noc.mainstreet.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Reid Fishler <redhead@freebsd.redbird.com>
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Got the same thing over here...Its amazing.
Reid Fishler
Lightning.net
At 02:04 PM 04/26/2000 -0700, Mark Kent wrote:
>It doesn't take long for the vultures to swoop in:
>
>I just picked up a voice mail from a UUnet salesperson that says
>"... I saw that y'all are at AboveNet and I'm fairly sure that you are
>aware of what happened yesterday with the denial of service attacks
>and I was wondering if y'all might be looking to go with somebody else
>that way you aren't shut down and you don't lose business ..."
>
>I must have missed the UUnet press release that stated that
>UUnet will not be affected by any DDOS attacks. Or maybe it
>is in a document covered by an NDA :-)
>
>-mark
>
