[ On Tue, October 7, 1997 at 23:38:37 (-0500), John A. Tamplin wrote: ]
Subject: Re: Denial of service attacks apparently from UUNET Netblocks
have area calling. The limitations are that BellSouth's reporting is utterly useless (so we have to use our logs to try and figure out the utilization of those trunks), ISDN calls aren't forwarded, and the calling number the Ascend gets is that of our number that is fowarded to here. Thus, we have no usefull caller identification for those lines.
OUCH! I guess that would mean you'd have to subpoena call detail records for those lines from BellSouth if you ever wanted to find out who really called them. Those lines could be oh-so-useful to a cracker with access to somone else's dial-out modems.... I know these schemes are all to common in lots of places, and obviously they're cheaper to set up and run than a remote POP, but do you really need all the added risks? -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>