[32094] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DoS attacks, NSPs unresponsiveness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Fumerola)
Wed Nov 8 02:51:33 2000
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 02:49:43 -0500
From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>
To: Jeff Workman <jworkman@pimpworks.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0011080203190.5983-100000@pinto.pimpworks.org>; from jworkman@pimpworks.org on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:09:42AM -0500
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On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:09:42AM -0500, Jeff Workman wrote:
> This is the point where I would start questioning whether my business
> relationship with this provider is such a wise idea, and also whether or
> not this behavior is the provider's policy or just the network engineer on
> duty's policy. I pay for bandwith, and for my upstream to at *least* do a
> little bit to protect my investment. I understand that if I need more
> than an ACL on my router interface that they will gladly (most
> likely) sell me a managed firewall package but even without that, I expect
> them to get the garbage off my pipe when I notice it. I don't even expect
> them to take proactive measures to keep it off my wire, but when I see it,
> I expect something to be done about it. If not, then I will let my money
> do the talking elsewhere.
Turning off the circuit was the executive opinion, not the technical opinion,
of the provider.
Simply put: this customer who was shut off paid less then other people in the
building, so cutting their circuit made life easier for the provider.
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Bill Fumerola - Lame Duck, BOFH / Chimes, Inc.
billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
