It's because they are charging for your downloads :) if you are being DoSed then it's a download reguardless. Really that is unscrupulous, There are some good ISPs that will do it if you know the source and the protocol. Well they do it for me at my place of work. :)
> Hi All, > > 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... > > Adam. > > > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 11:31, Minh Van Le wrote: > > I think I've been DoS'd. And it's still happening. It looks like DrDoS. I > > think I'm on some kind of IP database that's used in an attack and also the > > target/victim (me) of an attack. > > > > My guess is some kind of (successful) syn/icmp flood at first. > > > > After work I came home and tried to use the net. Couldn't get any network > > traffic happening. I initially did: > > > > 1) checked pppd/pppoe, route, ifconfig, ppp0 > > 2) checked ADSL modem sync lights > > 3) pppstats -w1 ppp0 > > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
