[63636] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DoS Attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew D Kirch)
Wed Oct 8 18:51:04 2003
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 17:41:21 -0500
From: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@2mbit.com>(by way of Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>)
To: Martin Hepworth <martinh@solid-state-logic.com>
In-Reply-To: <3F83C05A.4000705@solid-state-logic.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 08:44:26 +0100
Martin Hepworth <martinh@solid-state-logic.com> wrote:
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> Can SLA's be used to cover this sort of thing. (starts to dig out his
> own contracts).
>
> Surely you should be able to bounce it to your upstream provider who
> should deal with it for you??
>
> Just a thought.
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Senior Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic Ltd
> tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
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Due to the efficiency of our upstream provider's abuse department,
opening efficiently at 8 am and closing just as efficiently at 5 pm (because we all know network abuse only occurs between 8 and 5), the ISP wasn't going to be of much help with an attack that started at 6:30pm localtime.
Andrew D Kirch
Security Admin - Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org
