[43749] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Thu Oct 25 22:25:12 2001
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:24:11 -0500
From: Alan Hannan <alan@routingloop.com>
To: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20011025202411.B1848@mindvision.com>
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I don't know anything about what digital island is doing in
particular, but for a long time people have struggled with the issue
of how to offer better quality connectivity to sites off of their
network.
The communal nature of the Internet in times gone by provided
altruistic desires (usually) to provide good connectivity, but as
the quality becomes directly tied to cost, it is likely to suffer.
I suspect that DI, like many other companies, is actively monitoring
external sites to track, study, and hopefully improve connectivity
quality to them.
-alan
Thus spake Christopher J. Wolff (chris@bblabs.com)
on or about Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:58:22PM -0700:
>
> Hello friends,
>
> My IDS was just tripped over 300 times. The decoded packet says:
>
> mailto:abuse@digisle.com for questions
> This ICMP ECHO REQUEST/REPLY is part of the real-time network monitoring
> performed by Digital Island Inc. It is not an attack. If you have
> questions please contact
> abuse@digisle.com...........................................................
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> ...............................................
>
> We are not on their network or in any way affiliated with Digital Island,
> I'm just curious if anyone else has seen this anomaly, if it is legit, or if
> it is a real attack being spoofed from Digital Island...no response from
> abuse@digisle.com yet.
>
> Regards,
> Christopher J. Wolff, VP, CIO
> Broadband Laboratories, Inc.
> http://www.bblabs.com
> email:chris@bblabs.com
> phone:520.622.4338 x234
