[94434] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone from BT...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RL Vaughn)
Mon Jan 22 08:57:42 2007
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:56:29 -0600
From: RL Vaughn <Randy_Vaughn@Baylor.edu>
To: Peter Corlett <abuse@cabal.org.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20070122125717.GA2806@cabal.org.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Peter Corlett wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 04:09:48AM +0000, Fergie wrote:
>> ...on the list who might be able to comment on how they/you/BT is
>> detecting downstream clients that are bot-infected, and how exactly you
>> are dealing with them?
>
> Which bit of BT? They've got their fingers in quite a lot of pies, and the
> Clue level varies wildly.
>
> Although given you've asked that question, I suspect that you're enquiring
> about their retail Internet offerings, and my impression is that they don't
> bother to check for or deal with infected hosts.
>
I believe fergdawg referred to bt the platform rather than to BT the provider.
Although I have only one contact in the latter, that contact is clueful and
attempts to check for infected hosts. As is so often the case, topology and
customer-base add complexity to the dealing with part of problems.
