[32047] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DoS attacks, NSPs unresponsiveness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Fumerola)
Sat Nov 4 14:43:52 2000
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 14:41:12 -0500
From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>
To: Jeff Workman <jworkman@pimpworks.org>
Cc: Sven Nielsen <dalvenjah@DAL.NET>,
John Fraizer <nanog@EnterZone.Net>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20001104144112.Y37870@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0011040514390.28007-100000@pinto.pimpworks.org>; from jworkman@pimpworks.org on Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 06:00:38AM -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 06:00:38AM -0500, Jeff Workman wrote:
> Customer: My circuit is being saturated by tons of ICMP garbage. Can you
> please do something to stop it before it gets to my pipe? I
> don't know what they did, but apparently one of my dialup users
> has pissed somebody off, for these attacks are aimed at my
> modem pool.
>
> Me: Nope, can't help you, sorry.
>
> Customer: Excuse me?
>
> Me: It's your own fault that you're getting attacked because you
> your customers use IRC. Now sit back and take your
> spanking. If you wish, I can have a sales representative
> contact you tomorrow if you feel you need more bandwidth.
>
> Customer: You've got to be kidding!
>
> Me: Nope, thank you, drive through. *click*
A large IP provider (and construction/mining company) essentially told
me the above. That was after they turned down my circuit to "stop" the
attack.
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Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / billf@FreeBSD.org
