On 3 Feb 2017, at 12:34, Patrick W. Gilmore via Outages <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> “hammered”?
> 
> I remember the time AT&T called me and said they were going to turn off the 
> Akamai servers in their network because they were “hammering” AT&T users. I 
> (not so) patiently explained to them the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show was 
> being streamed live, and their users might get a weeeeeee bit upset if the 
> feed suddenly went away.

I remember fielding similar abuse calls who insisted that they were being 
attacked "BY F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET <http://f.root-servers.net/> ON SOURCE PORT 53".

I'll shut up now, before anybody feels the need to remind me that this is not a 
discussion list. I'm still interested in what the original question meant, 
though.


Joe
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