Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?

Fri Oct 26 00:18:28 UTC 2001

Then you can complain to them and make them stop and the other guy can put
an ACL on his border routers. Neat how we get to manage our own network
eh...

andy
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:

>
> Wow ... I see another long thread coming :(
>
> ACLs are a reactive solution.  An ICMP probe or two may be unwanted but not
> excessive.  441 times (depending on the size of ones network) could be
> excessive.  Why should I have to waste processor cycles to keep these guys
> out.
>
> >
> > At 08:37 PM 10/25/2001, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
> >
> > >Unfortunately, in this case I am not a customer of Digital Island in any
> > >way, nor have I given them authorization to hammer my network 441 times
> (and
> > >counting) in the last two hours.
> >
> > They're of the opinion that they don't need your permission... if they
> want
> > to hammer your network, they will.
> >
> > 'course, a nice ACL at the borders reminds 'em who your network actually
> > belongs to
> >
>