[98026] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Mon Jul 23 17:53:40 2007
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: sean@donelan.com (Sean Donelan)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:43:53 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0707231310370.22114@clifden.donelan.com> from "Sean Donelan" at Jul 23, 2007 01:15:28 PM
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.
Hint: I know. As I said, for the challenged, THERE IS NO BOT. MY TRAFFIC
IS BEING REDIRECTED REGARDLESS.
> > 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?
I don't care if bots ever try to connect to that server. I can effectively
stop the bots from connecting to servers by shutting down the Internet, but
that doesn't make that solution reasonable or correct.
... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
