[28351] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Above.net? ... vultures swoop in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rubens Kuhl Jr.)
Thu Apr 27 15:52:50 2000
From: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rkuhljr@uol.com.br>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:50:39 -0300
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> 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 :-)
And being an indirect customer of UUnet that has been hit by some DDoS
attacks originating from (or transiting from) UUNet, I would say that their
ability of responding to or tracing those attacks is something between
little and zero.
Rubens Kuhl Jr.
