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Re: monkeys.dom UPL being DDOSed to death

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Dewell)
Tue Sep 23 17:52:10 2003

Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:46:15 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Dewell <acd@woods.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200309232132.h8NLW12p017430@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



But what's the business case for doing so?  Unless enough of their customers
are pissed off, it's not going to happen.  Most users don't know enough about
it to complain to their provider so it becomes a bottom line issue.

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
 > Well.. that's all fine and good, except we first need one large player to
 > put their foot down and say "That's enough of this manure, we're depeering
 > you and blocking your prefixes till you clean up your act".
 >
 > Once *one* big player does that, your "eventually happening" will be pretty fast.


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