At 03:58 01/02/2012 -0500, Kelvin Williams wrote: Those ISPs that are good network citizens have done it already. Those who don't care and who haven't done it yet - won't do it in the future. The only recourse you have is exactly what you have done. -Hank

How can we prevent anyone else from ever enduring this again? While we may never stop it from ever happening, spammers (that's what we got hit by today) are a dime a dozen and will do everything possible to hit an Inbox, so how can we establish a protocol to immediate mitigate the effects of an traffic-stopping advertisement?

I thought registering with IRRs and up-to-date information in ARINs WHOIS was sufficient, apparently I was wrong. Not everyone respects them, but then again, they aren't very well managed (I've got several networks with antiquated information I've been unable to remove, it doesn't impair us normally, but its still there).

What can we do? Better yet, how do we as a whole respond when we encounter upstream providers who refuse to look at the facts and allow another to stay down?

kw

-- Kelvin Williams Sr. Service Delivery Engineer Broadband & Carrier Services Altus Communications Group, Inc.

"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." -- Abraham Maslow