I think it's fair to say that I'll pay for what I use. And the difference between this and spam is that spam can be controlled to an extent, whereas DDOS as the tech support person described so frankly quote "there's nothing we can do about it". So I think it's unfair to pass on both what I don't use, and to provide a service without adequate protection to customers. It's also clear that usage stats of +1.4gb and +5.3gb per day, which is hurrendously over a daily average of 35mb over 12 months, is wrong and is being charged to me.
Clearly there is something wrong here. Due to both the unignorable and enormity of this problem, I am currently taking steps with PacNet to resolve this issue. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 26 November 2002 12:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] I think I'm being DoS'd - What can I do ? Then who will pay for it? If they pass it on to you then you will get charged. If they block it - they will pay... (BTW - I used to work for optus...) -----Original Message----- From: Michael Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 26 November 2002 12:35 PM To: Minh Van Le Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] I think I'm being DoS'd - What can I do ? Quoting Minh Van Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 1st question: > > Does blocking the incoming connection with my firewall actually stop me > from > paying for downstream data ? I would think not because the firewall has > to > receive the packet before denying it ... > > I think there's an icmp RFC on this, but haven't taken a look at it. > Your end node (firewall) still gets the data. So its still downstream billable data. :(( > 2nd question: > > Is this just what everybody with a business plan / permanent connection > & IP > have to put up with ? Afraid so, however have you complained to your uplink about what is occuring. ie logged something with them to indicate a problem. This might not help you, just depends who provides the uplink. When I had bigpond direct permanent modem and had this happen to me, calling them was a waste of time as they didn't have any procedure in place to deal with it. Surely it would be a matter of putting rules on your uplink router and thus stop it hitting your node, thus not being charged. And when the above happens, it appears no one is really willing to help and you have to grin and bare it. grr. -- 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
