[48948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SPEWS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Thu Jun 20 08:40:51 2002
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:40:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.43.0206192256030.2260-100000@NEON.hq.nac.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> I'll admit, we had an issue with a customer who spammed, and it took us a
> little while to zap him.
Quantify "a little while". (I'm not trying to be argumentative here...)
> Nevertheless, he was zapped. He had a /27, and
> SPEWs listed the entire /24 surrounding it. When I asked about this, they
> said, in not-so-many-words, that by doing this, punishing innocent
> bystanders, that as long as the ISP noticed and fixed the issue, this was
> essentially OK to do.
I agree with that, *if* initial notifications to the ISP are ignored.
Escalations are then in order, definitely.
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