[6770] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint Mailbombing Update 3PM EST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JDF)
Sun Jan 5 12:07:25 1997
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 11:57:20 -0500 (EST)
From: JDF <lart@cais.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
cc: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0vgdhv-0007zaC@rip.psg.com>
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Randy Bush wrote:
> Well, it's not really an Ops problem. Ops folk worry about packets and
> stuff like that, not social and legal issues such as this. Within
> organizations such as Sprint, they're usually not empowered to take the
> kinds of actions you want.
I hate to continue this argument (perhaps we should all move it
over to isp-admin-list@aol.com, which is a good place for real admin types
to discuss these types of issues), but I have to disagree -- just as with
a standard pingflood, the intent is irrelevant, the flood must be stopped.
A very good case could be made that isp-inter.net is slowly packetflooding
world.std.com on port 25.
--
J.D. Falk, System Administrator <lart@cais.net>
CAIS Internet <noc@cais.net>
McLean, Virginia, USA 1-888-CAIS-NOC
