On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Randy R wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Gordon Henderson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 3) Contact the UPSTREAM of the attacking host?
>>
>> Yes. No reply. And in the few times I've tried, I've only ever had a reply
>> from Amazon - some 18 hours after the flood started and then it took
>> another 12 hours for them to stop it (well documented here in the archives
>> by myself and others)
>
> Amazon did something about it? I don't remember seeing that, Gordon,
> it's a new record. The average response has been zero.

Well... I don't know if they actually did anything )-: However, after 
going through their automated submission widget the attack last time did 
stop... Some 12 hours later. I suspect the poor sod who'd EC2 got hacked 
ran out of credit or something...

Their whole system is designed as a device to waste the time & effort of 
those trying to submit reports, etc. to them.


Gordon

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