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Well, in light of all the gloom I would like to say that I had a good experience with exodus/doubleclick, my network was recently the victim of a smurf attack, one of the amps was doubleclick.net, I contacted exodus about it and they (within an hour) put me into contact with doubleclick.net who had someone call me, I was able to walk the person on the phone through fixing the problem, and they are no longer a smurf amp. It's nice to have a few good experiences.. FYI, I am not a customer of Exodus in any way. Matthew S. Hallacy XtraTyme Technologies Systems/Network Administrator On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > Well, let's take a better example, smurf amps. > > I have some personal horror stories about running around in circles > getting tier1s to turn off their smurf amps originating from their own > routers or customers. Eg tier1 router was a smurf amp, it was smurfing, it > could be easily verified to smurf, but they would not disable the smurf > amp because it would have a "negative impact" on their customers. The > fact it was being actively used as a smurf amp didnt seem to matter to them. > > This was in fact a case of "just flip a switch and turn off the attack". > > I'm sure others on this list have their share of horror stories as well. > > The hoops the public had to jump through the past couple years to get > tier1s to turn off their smurf amps is mind boggling. And there are > tier1s who are *still* actively running smurf amps in their cores. > > I'm actually suprised noone has filed lawsuits over this. Or maybe someone > did and I missed it. > > -Dan > >
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