[58305] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: We have a firewall (was Re: Pakistan government orders ISP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Wed May 7 07:05:32 2003
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 12:05:01 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0305061915350.7878-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 6 May 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> The Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd has aquired a firewall to
> solve the DDOS situation impacting Internet service in the country. An
> unnamed security advisor asserted the proper use of a firewall would
> control the DDOS attacks and prevent hacking.
>
> I can understand the Pakistan government minister's frustration, and
> desire to get things fixed. Unfortunately, it seems like security
> incidents also attract security snake oil consultants. Buy my tonic
> to cure your ills.
I know we're all entertained by this quite unbelievable situation but is anyone
actually helping these folks out?
Someone on here must have a link to the Telecoms company concerned and theres
plenty folks on here who can help get this cleaned up nice and quick.. ?
Perhaps anyone with a contact over there should make themselves known and
solicit for a helpful techie (to respond offlist, I dont want flaming for
starting a consulting agency here :)
Steve
