[58317] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: We have a firewall (was Re: Pakistan government orders
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Pickering)
Wed May 7 14:52:43 2003
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 19:51:57 +0100
From: Rob Pickering <rob@pickering.org>
Reply-To: Rob Pickering <rob@pickering.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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--On 07 May 2003 12:05 +0100 "Stephen J. Wilcox"
<steve@telecomplete.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
> I know we're all entertained by this quite unbelievable situation
> but is anyone actually helping these folks out?
>
They seem to have issued an ITT if anyone is interested:
http://www.ptcl.com.pk/tenders/tender_may_02_2003.html
BTW, the firewall may be more than a response to DDOS, it seems that
Pakistan doesn't have a fully liberalised telecomms infrastructure
yet: http://www.ptcl.com.pk/news/apr_30_b_2003.html
--
Rob.
