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Re: SYN attack makes NandO Times as well...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexis Rosen)
Fri Sep 13 18:37:38 1996
From: Alexis Rosen <alexis@panix.com>
To: freedman@netaxs.com (Avi Freedman)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 18:35:30 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: dalvenjah@dal.net, MAP@BBN.COM, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609132101.RAA21996@netaxs.com> from "Avi Freedman" at Sep 13, 96 05:01:00 pm
Avi Freedman writes:
>
> > And if it is politics, maybe someone'll listen to this: Lucent Technologies
> > and CERT (as is right) are getting the limelight for this - wouldn't it be
> > great publicity if your company was the provider or one of the providers that
> > traced this down and caught the guy?
>
> And some people who worked on host-resistance w/ Alexis until 5am 3 or 4 nights
> (and supplied needed source and advice) aren't mentioned either in the PR :)
Correct, but not through lack of effort on my part. I believe in credit
where credit is due...
> Anyway, the later attacks didn't go on long enough to be traced w/ cooperation
> from Sprintlink (who did come around and was enthusiastic about helping).
Well, I wouldn't say "enthusiastic". Maybe "willing". But they take hours
to respond, and that's just not good enough.
/a
