AT&T. Layer 6-8 needed.

Mon Jul 27 05:58:28 UTC 2009

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, William Pitcock wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 20:05 -0700, Shon Elliott wrote:
>> There has been alot of customers on our network who were complaining about ACK
>> scan reports coming from 207.126.64.181. We had no choice but to block that
>> single IP until the attacks let up. It was a decision I made with the gentleman
>> that owns the colo facility currently hosts 4chan. There was no other way around
>> it. I'm sure AT&T is probably blocking it for the same reason. 4chan has been
>> under attack for over 3 weeks, the attacks filling up an entire GigE. If you
>> want to blame anyone, blame the script kiddies who pull this kind of stunt.
> ...have you ever heard of forged packet headers?  Just saying.

everyone who *still* refuses to block spoofing should think hard about it.

you know who you are.

-Dan