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Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement
From: Brandon Ross <bross () mindspring net>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 01:19:16 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, John Curran wrote:
At 10:05 PM 08/24/1998 -0500, Tracy J. Snell wrote:Everytime we have been SMURFed BBN/GTEI has been unwilling to do anything to help us. Either filters or aiding in hunting down the SMURFer. My experience is BBN doesn't help it's customers trace down SMURFers.Strange... I see tickets opened and worked on for these events; it's certainly the case that we work them when notified. If you forward me email from the last time this happened, I can hunt down the confusion.
From a customer point of view, I'll have to agree. BBN has been very
helpful in trying to track down the source of smurf attacks when we've reported them. Much, much better than other providers who flat out refuse to do any tracing because of "technicial problems with their routers". Others on my helpful provider list are ANS, Digex and Epoch. Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664 Director, Network Engineering, MindSpring Ent., Inc. info () mindspring com ICQ: 2269442 Stop Smurf attacks! Configure your router interfaces to block directed broadcasts. See http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi for details.
Current thread:
- Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement John Curran (Aug 24)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement Mike Leber (Aug 24)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement Mike Leber (Aug 24)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement John R. Levine (Aug 25)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement Tracy J. Snell (Aug 26)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement Karl Denninger (Aug 26)
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- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement Owen DeLong (Aug 24)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement John Curran (Aug 24)
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- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement John Curran (Aug 24)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement Brandon Ross (Aug 24)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement John Curran (Aug 24)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement Tracy J. Snell (Aug 26)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement Mike Leber (Aug 24)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement John Curran (Aug 24)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement Patrick Greenwell (Aug 24)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement Paul Vixie (Aug 24)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement Richard Irving (Aug 24)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement Paul A Vixie (Aug 24)
- Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement Karl Denninger (Aug 24)