Re: anyone have details about the attack on AGIS?

[Gordon Cook <cook () netaxs com>]

from the evidence at hand it seems that agis doesn't give a damn.  to
those who remember the beginning of agislist () interstice com it is clear
that then ( and I would presume so now) they had a technical staff made up
primarily of newbies.  Why their technical depth should be any greater now
escapes me.  I mean would *YOU* want 6 months to a year of employment at
agis on YOUR resume?

and if you are currently clueful would you wait more than a nanosecond
before rejecting an employment offer from them?  It is just a damned shame
how many isps apparently didn't do their homework before signing up with agis.

I wonder how long they can last?

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On Sun, 25 May 1997, J.D. Falk wrote:

> On Sun, May 25, 1997 at 02:32:27AM -0500, Ben Liberman wrote:
>
> > Seems that they were ping flooded, among other things.
>
>       I've heard a few interesting rumours:
>
>               1. AGIS has been attacked (yes, this is only a rumour,
>                  the only "evidence" is on the AGIS web page)
>
>               2. Somebody was pingflooding the routers
>
>               3. Somebody was SYN-flooding the routers(???)
>
>               4. The culprit was inside the AGIS network
>
>               5. AGIS was doing some upgrades that went bad (again)
>
>       Sure would be nice if AGIS was still friendly with other
>       backbones, so we could all help trace down the culprit (even
>       if it's just a typo in a router config), make it public among
>       the NANOG community, and make sure that it doesn't happen to
>       anybody else.
>
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>   |  'you got yourself into this mess, you figure it out.'"              |
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