[58241] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pakistan government orders ISP service level agreement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon May 5 13:55:24 2003
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 17:53:56 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0305051335540.3443-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 5 May 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> Pakistan has been suffering a 40 day DOS attack, disrupting most of the
> International Internet service in the country.
>
> The Pakistan Government, Minister for IT & Telecom, has "directed" the
> Pakistan Telecommunications Corporation to sign service level agreements
> to ensure 99% Internet availability.
>
> Over 200 official(government?) websites have been inaccessible for over
> three weeks.
>
> http://www.paknews.com/main.php?id=5&date1=2003-05-05
> "Within a period of five days, the body has been assigned to formulate
> a concrete strategy to stem the incidence of DoS attacks.. The
> committee will work on urgent basis and suggest short-term measures
> within two day."
>
I suppose contacting upstreams for traceback and filtration isn't
something they want to do??
