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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Multiple different ISPs respond to Bots (was RE: DNS Hijacking by Cox)
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Raymond L. Corbin wrote: I agree. They are at least trying to clean up their network. If they are having a lot of problems with zombie bots that DDoS / Spam then this is a good way to stop it, for now. The small group of users can either use other nameservers or something like psybnc to connect if they want to get on IRC. It doesn't seem to be rogue Cox engineers. Several major ISPs have all taken action against these particular IRC servers (not! IRC in general). They either re-direct the traffic to a cleaning server, or are blackholing the traffic completely. Yes, it could have been some type of false positive; but when multiple ISPs all start re-acting to something, I think there might be more to the story. Especially when those ISPs are noted for not responding to incidents. One ISP, it might be the ISP. Multiple ISPs, gotta start looking at what has them disturbed. Its hard to wake those dragons.
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