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Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Jul 23 14:16:19 2007

Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:15:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200707231602.l6NG263j047043@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote:
> Hint: there is no bot.  My traffic is being redirected regardless.  Were I
> a Cox customer (and I'm not), I'd be rather ticked off.

Hint: the bots are on computers connecting to the irc server, not the irc 
server.

> Interfering with services in order to clean a bot would be a much more
> plausible excuse if there was a bot.  There is no bot.

So are you claiming no bots ever try to connect to that server?


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