full-disclosure - Re: [irc-discussion] Major ISPs arbitrarily blocking IRC and hijacking DNS entries

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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:45:30 -0500
From: M Graff <explorer@...me.org>
To: General IRC Discussion List <irc-discussion@...ts.irc-unity.org>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [irc-discussion] Major ISPs arbitrarily
 blocking IRC and hijacking DNS entries

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I understand there is currently a serious botnet attack that seems to
generate approximately 600 megabits/sec of ICMP traffic, and is being
used against those three ISPs specifically.  Perhaps they are attempting
to get a handle on it?

cox internet in my area (Oklahoma) is not doing any such blocking.

- --Michael
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