Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

["Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ben Browning wrote:

> At 02:36 PM 6/24/2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ben Browning wrote:
> >
> > > > like showing that the spammer was actually sending enough of a volume to
> > > > swamp their core routers....
> > >
> > > Likewise, I imagine MCI could argue that the damage is to their core
> > > product; namely, the trust of other ISPs and their willingness to exchange
> > > traffic with MCI.
> >
> > you mean the phone companies we do business with?

whoops, forgot my smilies :(

> No, I mean the internet. (Hence, ISPs). Your product, in the context of
> this discussion anyways, is access to the internet. When the actions of a

I'm not sure that there are many who are wholesale null routing uunet ip
space, if they do they might be causing their customers unnecessary
outages.

> downstream damage that product(IE more and more networks nullroute UUNet
> traffic), I would assume that you have appropriate privilege to toss them
> overboard in the contracts.