[43752] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reid Fishler)
Thu Oct 25 22:34:49 2001
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011025223632.028d0a98@freebsd.redbird.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 22:36:59 -0400
To: Alan Hannan <alan@routingloop.com>
From: Reid Fishler <redhead@freebsd.redbird.com>
Cc: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20011025202411.B1848@mindvision.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
If everyone sent out "feelers" we would all have OC3's just to accept the
feelers...forget customers.
Reid Fishler
Lightning.net
At 08:24 PM 10/25/2001 -0500, Alan Hannan wrote:
> 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...........................................................
>[removed]
> > ...............................................
> >
> > 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
