[61602] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Palmer)
Sat Aug 30 21:57:47 2003
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 11:56:47 +1000 (EST)
From: Matthew Palmer <mjp16@ieee.uow.edu.au>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0308292049470.8774-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Which Microsoft protocols should ISP's break today? Microsoft Exchange?
> Microsoft file sharing? Microsoft Plug & Play? Microsoft SQL/MSDE?
> Microsoft IIS?
All of the above. <g>
> > He added that ISPs have the view and ability to prevent en-masse
> > attacks. "All these attacks traverse their networks before they reach
> > you and me. If they would simply stop attack traffic that has been
> > identified and accepted as such, we'd all sleep better," Cooper said.
Bwahahaha. Ghod I love a good comedian.
Having recently pulped my head against the wall of a "network provider" too
clueless to provision decent IP connectivity, the last thing I want is to
have the ISP unilaterally decide what they're going to do with my packets.
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