Re: Thanks & Let's Prevent this in the Future.

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>]

At 03:58 01/02/2012 -0500, Kelvin Williams wrote:

Those ISPs that are good network citizens have done it already.  Those who 
don't care and who haven't done it yet - won't do it in the future.  The 
only recourse you have is exactly what you have done.

-Hank

> How can we prevent anyone else from ever enduring this again?  While we may
> never stop it from ever happening, spammers (that's what we got hit by
> today) are a dime a dozen and will do everything possible to hit an Inbox,
> so how can we establish a protocol to immediate mitigate the effects of an
> traffic-stopping advertisement?
>
> I thought registering with IRRs and up-to-date information in ARINs WHOIS
> was sufficient, apparently I was wrong.  Not everyone respects them, but
> then again, they aren't very well managed (I've got several networks with
> antiquated information I've been unable to remove, it doesn't impair us
> normally, but its still there).
>
> What can we do?  Better yet, how do we as a whole respond when we encounter
> upstream providers who refuse to look at the facts and allow another to
> stay down?
>
> kw
>
> --
> Kelvin Williams
> Sr. Service Delivery Engineer
> Broadband & Carrier Services
> Altus Communications Group, Inc.
>
>
> "If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." --
> Abraham Maslow