Few questions to the american ISPs [Re: DDOS anecdotes]

Sun Jun 24 16:51:04 UTC 2001

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, E.B. Dreger wrote:

> Hmmmm.... would this be the same @Home where a customer spammed us, I
> reported to @Home, and their abuse address bounced?  Not only that, but
> the "try this address" postmaster box referenced in the bounce _also_
> bounced?  Yup.  Same @Home.

I think it this @Home we're all referring to:

The original message was received at Sat, 23 Jun 2001 04:23:20 -0700 (PDT)
from mx10-sfba.mail.home.com [24.0.95.241]

   ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -----
sysadm at pita.svr.home.net
    (expanded from: <postmaster at home.com>)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to junk.mail.home.com.:
>>> RCPT To:<sysadm at pita.svr.home.net>
<<< 451 4.0.0 Can't create transcript file ./xff5O03gw27036: No space left
on device
sysadm at pita.svr.home.net... Deferred: 451 4.0.0 Can't create transcript
file ./xff5O03gw27036: No
space left on device
Warning: message still undelivered after 12 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se