Re: DDoS Attack in Progress.

[Steve Linford <linford () spamhaus org>]

On 11 Oct 2008, at 16:22, Steve Church wrote:

> Beavis aka John Lopez:
> I, for one, am glad you're interested in stopping the abuse at its  
> source.
> Thank you.
>
> Steve Linford:
> > why not ACL the source at your router or at whatever device is being
> (packeted).
> Mr. Lopez is contributing to the welfare of the net as a whole by  
> addressing
> the cause, rather than applying a bandage locally to lessen the  
> symptom.  I
> sincerely hope your dismissive advice is not characteristic of  
> Spamhaus
> policy regarding abused hosts, considering the mission statement at  
> the top
> of your homepage.
>
> Steve Church

OK, you don't know much about Spamhaus. Dealing with network abuse  
issues is what we do 24/7. John Lopez contacted my privately and I've  
given him the address of TurkTelekom's security guy, but the reality  
of things is that today is a Saturday and tomorrow is a Sunday,  
unless TurkTelekom's guy is working weekends (unlikely) ACL'ing the  
source is not just an advisable option but is probably until Monday  
the only option.

  Steve Linford
  The Spamhaus Project
  http://www.spamhaus.org