Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?

Fri Oct 26 02:36:59 UTC 2001

If everyone sent out "feelers" we would all have OC3's just to accept the 
feelers...forget customers.

Reid Fishler
Lightning.net

At 08:24 PM 10/25/2001 -0500, Alan Hannan wrote:

>   I don't know anything about what digital island is doing in
>   particular, but for a long time people have struggled with the issue
>   of how to offer better quality connectivity to sites off of their
>   network.
>
>   The communal nature of the Internet in times gone by provided
>   altruistic desires (usually) to provide good connectivity, but as
>   the quality becomes directly tied to cost, it is likely to suffer.
>
>   I suspect that DI, like many other companies, is actively monitoring
>   external sites to track, study, and hopefully improve connectivity
>   quality to them.
>
>   -alan
>
>Thus spake Christopher J. Wolff (chris at bblabs.com)
>  on or about Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:58:22PM -0700:
> >
> > Hello friends,
> >
> > My IDS was just tripped over 300 times.  The decoded packet says:
> >
> > mailto:abuse at digisle.com for questions
> > This ICMP ECHO REQUEST/REPLY is part of the real-time network monitoring
> > performed by Digital Island Inc.  It is not an attack.  If you have
> > questions please contact
> > 
> abuse at digisle.com...........................................................
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> > ...............................................
> >
> > We are not on their network or in any way affiliated with Digital Island,
> > I'm just curious if anyone else has seen this anomaly, if it is legit, 
> or if
> > it is a real attack being spoofed from Digital Island...no response from
> > abuse at digisle.com yet.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Christopher J. Wolff, VP, CIO
> > Broadband Laboratories, Inc.
> > http://www.bblabs.com
> > email:chris at bblabs.com
> > phone:520.622.4338 x234