North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical NOC responses when advised of ongoing DoS attacks (Was Re: We have a firewall (was Re: Pakistan government orders ISPservice level agreement))
> --- Scott Granados <[email protected]> wrote: >> Unless you actually call UUnet and your not a customer, God help you then. * [email protected] (David Barak) [Wed 07 May 2003, 15:24 CEST]: > Well, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for this - > how many (non-networking) companies will do things > which don't benefit their customers on behalf of > someone who is not a customer (and shows no sign of > becoming one)? I can't think of any offhand, and I > don't think that a whole lot would show up in an > exhaustive search. I'd have thought having a customer *not* waste all their outgoing bandwidth on useless data such as participating in a DoS attack would make for a happier customer. If you're one of those believers in only your own bottom line, perhaps the liability stick is a good on to wave in your general direction in cases like this? (not stating that you are negligent when advised of DoS attacks in progress, of course) Regards, -- Niels.
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