From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 1 21:30:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA11140 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 21:30:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA11123 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 21:30:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA05542; Thu, 1 May 1997 21:30:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970501213035.42945@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 21:30:35 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPAM target References: <19970501193004.42591@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199705020051.RAA04034@superior.mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Warner Losh on Thu, May 01, 1997 at 09:17:41PM -0600 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh scribbled this message on May 1: > In message <19970501193004.42591@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> John-Mark > Gurney writes: > : > Not likely. AGIS is the current home of Cyber Promotions, and actively > : > defends their activities. > : > : sounds like we need to send a message to MCI and see if they won't do > : any thing about it... of course we can always to a class action > : suit... and each of us get $500 for each posting to each list.. :) > > don't count on it. I know of at least three machines in the > cyberpromo domain that are sending BIFF packets to our subnet every what is a BIFF packet anyways? never heard the term... > time they get a mail message. The village has been hit with hundreds > of thousands of these things over the last several months. We've > tried everything we can think of to make them stop, and still they > keep coming. > > Ideas? Can we call the DA or the FBI for a DoS attack? well.. I think we should call the FBI.. it's a national matter as he has crossed state lines... as he's spamming our "fax machines" across the country (and world wide)... -- John-Mark Cu Networking Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD