anyone have details about the attack on AGIS?

Tue May 27 22:25:37 UTC 1997

They were quick to call us when via email we mentioned blocking their AS at 
our routers.  But other than that they didn't seem to care.

Tony

On Mon, 26 May 1997, Gordon Cook wrote:

> from the evidence at hand it seems that agis doesn't give a damn.  to
> those who remember the beginning of agislist at interstice.com it is clear
> that then ( and I would presume so now) they had a technical staff made up
> primarily of newbies.  Why their technical depth should be any greater now
> escapes me.  I mean would *YOU* want 6 months to a year of employment at
> agis on YOUR resume?
> 
> and if you are currently clueful would you wait more than a nanosecond
> before rejecting an employment offer from them?  It is just a damned shame
> how many isps apparently didn't do their homework before signing up with agis.
> 
> I wonder how long they can last?
> 
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> 
> On Sun, 25 May 1997, J.D. Falk wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, May 25, 1997 at 02:32:27AM -0500, Ben Liberman wrote:
> > 
> > > Seems that they were ping flooded, among other things.
> > 
> > 	I've heard a few interesting rumours:
> > 
> > 		1. AGIS has been attacked (yes, this is only a rumour,
> > 		   the only "evidence" is on the AGIS web page)
> > 
> > 		2. Somebody was pingflooding the routers
> > 
> > 		3. Somebody was SYN-flooding the routers(???)
> > 
> > 		4. The culprit was inside the AGIS network
> > 
> > 		5. AGIS was doing some upgrades that went bad (again)
> > 
> > 	Sure would be nice if AGIS was still friendly with other
> > 	backbones, so we could all help trace down the culprit (even
> > 	if it's just a typo in a router config), make it public among
> > 	the NANOG community, and make sure that it doesn't happen to
> > 	anybody else.
> > 
> >  ---------========== J.D. Falk <jdfalk at cybernothing.org> =========---------
> >   | "I keep praying for answers on how to do routing and He keeps saying |
> >   |  'you got yourself into this mess, you figure it out.'"              |
> >   |                        -- David Payer <david.payer at ia-omni.com>      |
> >  ----========== http://www.cybernothing.org/jdfalk/home.html ==========----
> > 
> 

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