Wasn't it UUnet that was SHUTTING OFF customers when the whole DDOS thing was going on? That's kinda what I thought.. Bill Sehmel - OpalNetworks, Sr. Network Engineer Office 415.333.0336 558 South Hill Blvd. Virtual Office 510.967.6679 Daly City, Ca 94014 Is your network secure? OpalNetworks can show you. bsehmel@opalnetworks.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Kent <mark@noc.mainstreet.net> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:04 PM Subject: Re: Above.net? ... vultures swoop in

It doesn't take long for the vultures to swoop in:

I just picked up a voice mail from a UUnet salesperson that says "... I saw that y'all are at AboveNet and I'm fairly sure that you are aware of what happened yesterday with the denial of service attacks and I was wondering if y'all might be looking to go with somebody else that way you aren't shut down and you don't lose business ..."

I must have missed the UUnet press release that stated that UUnet will not be affected by any DDOS attacks. Or maybe it is in a document covered by an NDA :-)

-mark

I just picked up a voice mail from a UUnet salesperson that says "... I saw that y'all are at AboveNet and I'm fairly sure that you are aware of what happened yesterday with the denial of service attacks and I was wondering if y'all might be looking to go with somebody else that way you aren't shut down and you don't lose business ..."

I must have missed the UUnet press release that stated that UUnet will not be affected by any DDOS attacks. Or maybe it is in a document covered by an NDA :-)

And being an indirect customer of UUnet that has been hit by some DDoS attacks originating from (or transiting from) UUNet, I would say that their ability of responding to or tracing those attacks is something between little and zero. Rubens Kuhl Jr.