Security Incidents: Re: DoS attack... what to do?

[Paul Laudanski <zx () castlecops com>]

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.

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