[76337] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Unflattering comments about ISPs and DDOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Mon Dec 6 20:12:48 2004
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 17:12:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041207001908.GA8833@gsp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> "Based on my conversations last week, Comcast's network engineers
> would like to be more aggressive. But the marketing department
> shot down a ban on port 25 because of its circa $58 million price
> tag--so high partially because some subscribers would have to be
> told how to reconfigure their mail programs to point at Comcast's
> servers, and each phone call to the help desk costs $9."
Thats quite ok, if theyre unwilling to filter port 25 on their end, we
are more than happy to filter port 25 on our end. Many have already done
this.
-Dan
