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Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?

  • From: Reid Fishler
  • Date: Thu Oct 25 22:36:43 2001

If everyone sent out "feelers" we would all have OC3's just to accept the feelers...forget customers.

Reid Fishler
Lightning.net

At 08:24 PM 10/25/2001 -0500, Alan Hannan wrote:


I don't know anything about what digital island is doing in
particular, but for a long time people have struggled with the issue
of how to offer better quality connectivity to sites off of their
network.

The communal nature of the Internet in times gone by provided
altruistic desires (usually) to provide good connectivity, but as
the quality becomes directly tied to cost, it is likely to suffer.

I suspect that DI, like many other companies, is actively monitoring
external sites to track, study, and hopefully improve connectivity
quality to them.

-alan

Thus spake Christopher J. Wolff ([email protected])
on or about Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:58:22PM -0700:
>
> Hello friends,
>
> My IDS was just tripped over 300 times. The decoded packet says:
>
> mailto:[email protected] for questions
> This ICMP ECHO REQUEST/REPLY is part of the real-time network monitoring
> performed by Digital Island Inc. It is not an attack. If you have
> questions please contact
> [email protected]............
[removed]
> ...............................................
>
> We are not on their network or in any way affiliated with Digital Island,
> I'm just curious if anyone else has seen this anomaly, if it is legit, or if
> it is a real attack being spoofed from Digital Island...no response from
> [email protected] yet.
>
> Regards,
> Christopher J. Wolff, VP, CIO
> Broadband Laboratories, Inc.
> http://www.bblabs.com
> email:[email protected]
> phone:520.622.4338 x234