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Re: DDoS attacks

  • From: Dan Hollis
  • Date: Thu Jul 12 02:11:40 2001 
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> Convince me why a list of non-cooperative ISPs is a thing that would
> help.

behavior modification is sometimes achieved by bad PR.

They might blow off some individual isp, "eat your pingflood, we
will shut down our smurf amps when we feel like it". I would imagine
their attitude might change when reporters start calling, "when are you
planning on shutting down your 10mb/s smurf amps?"

-Dan