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Well, if a customer gets shutdown before the DDOS hits ... then they weren't shutdown by the DDOS, neh? <GRIN> I just love those guys, they tell such fine jokes ... > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Sehmel, William C. > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 3:36 PM > To: Mark Kent; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Above.net? ... vultures swoop in > > > > Wasn't it UUnet that was SHUTTING OFF customers when the > whole DDOS thing > was going on? > That's kinda what I thought.. > > Bill Sehmel - OpalNetworks, Sr. Network Engineer > Office 415.333.0336 558 South Hill Blvd. > Virtual Office 510.967.6679 Daly City, Ca 94014 > Is your network secure? OpalNetworks can show you. > [email protected] > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mark Kent <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:04 PM > Subject: Re: Above.net? ... vultures swoop in > > > > > > It doesn't take long for the vultures to swoop in: > > > > I just picked up a voice mail from a UUnet salesperson that says > > "... I saw that y'all are at AboveNet and I'm fairly sure > that you are > > aware of what happened yesterday with the denial of service attacks > > and I was wondering if y'all might be looking to go with > somebody else > > that way you aren't shut down and you don't lose business ..." > > > > I must have missed the UUnet press release that stated that > > UUnet will not be affected by any DDOS attacks. Or maybe it > > is in a document covered by an NDA :-) > > > > -mark > > > > > > >
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