[4478] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Sep 17 12:01:22 1996
To: riz@netcom.com (Jeff Rizzo)
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:40:21 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:53:39 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Jeff Rizzo writes:
> Those of us running backbones (well, some of us, anyway) are spending
> a portion of our energies tracing these attacks. The discussion
> here is proving helpful, and I definitely think it should continue.
>
> What sort of experiences have people had eliciting cooperation from
> other providers, when attempting to trace?
Largely bad ones :(
> I'm currently attempting to trace one, and have gotten it to the
> edge of our network, but have spent the last twelve hours attempting
> to get cooperation from the NSP at mae-west I've tracked it to.
We need to get some sort of rapid response system going so that people
can know who to call to get cooperation quickly -- the phone tag
problem alone right now is causing significant damage...
Perry
