[90892] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: RoadRunner security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Dayman)
Tue Jun 20 10:22:19 2006
From: "Dennis Dayman" <dennis@thenose.net>
To: "'Chris Horry'" <zerbey@wibble.co.uk>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:21:03 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4498040E.6060500@wibble.co.uk>
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I am sending it to their security/postmaster (Todd Herr) guru now.
-Dennis
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Chris Horry
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:20 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: RoadRunner security
>
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> A general question to the list about RoadRunner security...
>
> I've been receiving a DNS flood from either a malicious, or
> badly configured IP in Taiwan since last Thursday. I've
> contacted the ISP responsible, but if the owner of
> 140.116.23.19 would mind shutting the damn thing down I'd be
> really grateful. :)
>
> I'm filtering it at my firewall but the router the RoadRunner
> controls is happily sending the packets to me still and
> causing slowdown. After
> 3 days of convincing them that it wasn't actually my network
> generatign the traffic, RoadRunner's front line loonies have
> told me basically, nothing we can do to filter that, sorry.
>
> Does anyone have a contact at RoadRunner who has a clue?
>
> Chris
>
> - --
> Chris Horry KG4TSM "A conservative is a man with two perfectly
> zerbey@wibble.co.uk good legs who, however, has never learned how
> http://www.wibble.co.uk to walk forward". -- Franklin D.
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