It should be blocked at the complaining customer port. Not nationwide, and certainly not without announcement.
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Shon Elliott <s...@unwiredbb.com> wrote: > There has been alot of customers on our network who were complaining about > ACK > scan reports coming from 207.126.64.181. We had no choice but to block that > single IP until the attacks let up. It was a decision I made with the > gentleman > that owns the colo facility currently hosts 4chan. There was no other way > around > it. I'm sure AT&T is probably blocking it for the same reason. 4chan has > been > under attack for over 3 weeks, the attacks filling up an entire GigE. If > you > want to blame anyone, blame the script kiddies who pull this kind of stunt. > > Regards, > Shon Elliott > Senior Network Engineer > unWired Broadband, Inc. > > > jamie wrote: > > All, > > > > It appears at AT&T (including DSL, and my own home service via u-verse) > > has unilaterally and without explanation started blocking websites. > > > > I have confirmed this with multiple tests. (It actually appears that > > these sites are being blocked at a local-global scale -- that is, each > > city/hub seems to have blackholes for the sites). > > > > The sites I know of I'll list below (see Reddit for a discussion), but > > this is clearly and absolutely unacceptable. Please, comments on the > nature > > of the sites are OT.. Let's keep this thread that way. (Away from being > OT, > > that is). > > > > If any T folk are around, and have gotten wind of this (all comments / > > direct emails will be off record), a reply would be appreciated. > > > > No ears enclosing clue will be reached via normal channels at ~950E on > a > > Sunday, but this is clearly a problem needing addressing, resolution, > action > > and, who knows - suit? > > > > Thanks in advance all for insight, comments, > > > > -jamie > > > > >