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Re: DoS attack... what to do?

Subject: Re: DoS attack... what to do?
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:00:00 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Steve Friedl wrote:

Actually, many ISPs are not terribly happy to "work with you", as "their
time" is a resource just as much as their bandwidth is, and this often
requires the attention of the most senior people. Customers who repeatedly
get DoS'd often find themselves invited to take their business elsewhere.

Now the question is: Who did you piss off?

Same thing I asked him :-)

One might recall the days when Gaobot was making the rounds last May and 
some of the websites being DOS's had redirected the traffic to my servers:

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/05/10/ddos_attacks_hobble_ecommerce_security_sites.html

http://jaguarpc.com did the best they could at the time, but it ultimately 
led to our switching ISPs to http://applicationx.net.  We continue to get 
attacked on a daily basis, however, proper measures have been put in place 
at the current location which made the difference.  Hoorah.

-- 
Regards,

Paul Laudanski - Computer Cops, LLC. CEO & Founder
CastleCops(SM) - http://castlecops.com
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