At 09:08 27/11/2002, Adam Hewitt sent this up the stick:
When I was in support at UUNET/WorldCom/borg - we filtered (on request only) when CodeRed and Nimda were peaking. Most likely because we had no policy that said we would not do it, but we also had no policy that said we would :)I used to work as a network engineer for a large national wholesale ISP, and it was *policy* that we provided bandwidth, *not* filtering. Their philosophy was that if you are being DoS'ed you need to contact the source ISP and get them to block, otherwise we would still get charged for the traffic from our supplier.I can kind of see their point, but it doesn't really help the average end user. Even when code red was running riot, we still did not filter...
We also helped out smaller customers (whose links were so badly congested that they were essentially cut off) by contacting the ISP of the source of the problem.
Not sure if this sort of thing will happen any more though.........
cheers,
rob
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