[71892] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Thu Jun 24 19:54:04 2004
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:52:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <6.0.3.0.0.20040624153959.03440c90@127.0.0.1>
To: Ben Browning <benb@theriver.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ben Browning wrote:
> At 02:36 PM 6/24/2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> >On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ben Browning wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > >like showing that the spammer was actually sending enough of a volume to
> > > >swamp their core routers....
> > >
> > > Likewise, I imagine MCI could argue that the damage is to their core
> > > product; namely, the trust of other ISPs and their willingness to exchange
> > > traffic with MCI.
> >
> >you mean the phone companies we do business with?
>
whoops, forgot my smilies :(
> No, I mean the internet. (Hence, ISPs). Your product, in the context of
> this discussion anyways, is access to the internet. When the actions of a
I'm not sure that there are many who are wholesale null routing uunet ip
space, if they do they might be causing their customers unnecessary
outages.
> downstream damage that product(IE more and more networks nullroute UUNet
> traffic), I would assume that you have appropriate privilege to toss them
> overboard in the contracts.
