[4471] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Scharf)
Tue Sep 17 11:06:16 1996
To: "Craig A. Huegen" <c-huegen@quad.quadrunner.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:02:12 -0700
From: Jerry Scharf <scharf@bb.home.vix.com>
Craig A. Huegen wrote:
> ...
>
> As part of a task force studying this problem, I have called some of the
> major hardware vendors (namely SGI, HP, and Sun). SGI told one of the
> team members "we're not allowed to really talk about this". Sun and HP
> have both said "we've formed a council that has been evaluating the
> situation, and will make available anything we have done to help alleviate
> or prevent the problems".
>
> /cah
Since everyone is so desperate to say that they are the leader in
Internet servers, perhaps the media folks watching this should contact
the vendors, then report on their woefully inadequate response to the
problem. There needs to be more muscle to get theses folks to move FAST
when problems like this come up.
Avi has proven it is doable. It shows how used to the router vendors'
'We'll fix it today' response we've gotten.
Jerry
