[68751] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Quincy Taxpayer)
Tue Mar 16 11:17:24 2004
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:16:49 -0800
To: steve@telecomplete.co.uk, sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: "John Quincy Taxpayer" <jqtaxpayer@hush.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 04:14:01 -0800 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
>According to the people I spoke to, they had not noticed such an
>attack
>on the date specified.
And, while not knowing the specifics of this situation, if you were being
attacked, and it hurt
your network, would you continue to piss the attacker off by validating
it? You'll have a
problem finding anyone that crazy, I think.
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 02:54:43 -0800 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
>
>People should be worried about stuff like this.
>Banetele is a facilities-based network operator
>in Norway and these guys are directly attacking
>their BGP sessions to put them off the air.
>
I don't know anything about the banetele attack mentioned specifically,
other than to say,
this matches his M.O. entirely, and, he isn't the only kiddie who figured
out that attacking
routers is sometimes more effective than attacking the intended victim.
John Quincy Taxpayer
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