Re: [cobalt-users] dip.t-dialin.net IP Range

["Charles Williams \(CEO\)" <hosting.mailing.list.account@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Sagar" <wsagar@xxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 7:15 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] dip.t-dialin.net IP Range


> At 12:17 PM 4/30/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >Block those, and you block these idiots. :) And, you could even write to
> >d.kaufmann and ask him to tell his users to stop scanning, but that might
> >incurr some wrath. It's easier just to drop them off the face of the
planet.
>
> Be very VERY careful who you write to within the European Internet
Registry
> IP users... we had one particulary bad episode with one of the people who
> have an IP range out of them...
>
> We were getting a lot of scans from one particular "client" of theirs, I
> belive it was a cyber cafe somewhere "over there" I did the afore
mentioned
> steps to find their person in charge and wrote the "cease and desist"
> message.. Well..apparantly, this was the person doing the scans!
>
> Almost immediatly, my home machine began getting scanned, one machine on
my
> small network (belonging to a roomate) which has linux on it and was not
> behind a software firewall got totally hammered by them... Our router
> lights were on almost solid with the attack for hours.. even taking the
> machine off line did not stop it.. then... My DSL provider got hit with a
> several day DNS attack by *someone* whom they would not divulge the IP
> address of, but I suspect was, the same group...
>
> So.. moral of the story.. block the arseholes and don't send the letter!
It
> will do no good (likely) and may well issue them a challenge and make your
> local system as well as your server a ripe target for them...
>
> Wayne Sagar
>

Wayne,

This is exactly why I started my project.  With people in the right places
in the right countries you would not have had that problem.  You would have
reported it to the person heading up the area the attack came from and left
it at that.  When you now the lay of the ground you don't fall into things
like the hole you did as often.

chuck


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