[43751] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Walden)
Thu Oct 25 22:31:45 2001
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:25:59 -0500 (CDT)
From: Andy Walden <andy@tigerteam.net>
To: JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, JC Dill wrote:
> Above.net's blocking of ORBS led to fewer and fewer networks using ORBS and
> IMHO it contributed to the weakness that allowed the lawsuit to happen and
> thrive. If ORBS had been a stronger service with more users, they might
> have done things differently before or during the lawsuit.
Maybe, but I think your reaching.. :)
> What happens to Digital Island if networks (especially large networks)
> start blocking them because they won't stop repeatedly scanning when
> asked? Can it do them *any* good?
That I agree with. I expect its a mistake on their end and they will fix
it. It wouldn't be very scalable to scan every network hundreds of times
and hour.
andy
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