Seems that ATT has restored access to 4chan as confirmed on http://www.centralgadget.com/att-blocking-access-to-portions-of-4chan-2336/ and on an IRC I happened to be idleing in. -- Kody Riker Level II VAServ Ltd -----Original Message----- From: Andrew D Kirch [mailto:trelane@trelane.net] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 2:25 AM To: William Pitcock Cc: nanog - n. am. network ops group list Subject: Re: AT&T. Layer 6-8 needed. William Pitcock wrote:
On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 23:15 -0700, Shon Elliott wrote:
Okay, so how do YOU block the attacks from eating up your bandwidth and filling up your logs without blocking the entire IP?
If I was AT&T, I would purchase DDoS filtering equipment and run it at edge where all of my traffic is peering anyway.
This discussion is about AT&T, not you.
William
While I agree, I certainly believe that due to the nature of some of the content on 4chan, AT&T can make a strong "Good Samaritan" claim under 47USC230. There's always TOR. Andrew D Kirch