Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt

Fri Oct 26 14:45:45 UTC 2001

Curious Chris, 
What IP's are they probing? LAN IPs? Or just the DNS server as they claim?
And what then do these pings have to do with [quote from D.I.] "finding the
nearest servers from our customers (Microsoft) to you"? What good does it do
to ping to find distances,
since the timing on the internet is not a constant, and neither are the
pops, routes, hops...etc. This is why we use routing tables that are not
constant... 

I really see no honest reason to be ping-probing one's LAN. And in the
spirit of the internet and "good faith" behavior, a better explaination is
warranted.

> 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
>