RoadRunner security

Tue Jun 20 14:21:03 UTC 2006

I am sending it to their security/postmaster (Todd Herr) guru now.

-Dennis

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> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Chris Horry
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:20 AM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: RoadRunner security
> 
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> A general question to the list about RoadRunner security...
> 
> I've been receiving a DNS flood from either a malicious, or 
> badly configured IP in Taiwan since last Thursday.  I've 
> contacted the ISP responsible, but if the owner of 
> 140.116.23.19 would mind shutting the damn thing down I'd be 
> really grateful. :)
> 
> I'm filtering it at my firewall but the router the RoadRunner 
> controls is happily sending the packets to me still and 
> causing slowdown.  After
> 3 days of convincing them that it wasn't actually my network 
> generatign the traffic, RoadRunner's front line loonies have 
> told me basically, nothing we can do to filter that, sorry.
> 
> Does anyone have a contact at RoadRunner who has a clue?
> 
> Chris
> 
> - --
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