Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft) [LWN.net]

Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft)

Posted Dec 2, 2004 22:25 UTC (Thu) by a_hippie (guest, #34)
Parent article: Spam Sites Crippled by Lycos Screensaver DDoS (Netcraft)

"http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/12/02/lycos_screen..."

Being a cox.net customer, I have to confess that I despise being forced out from visiting the "makelovenotspam.com" website. I used ssh to connect to a friend's system on another network and was able to see the site using the links browser. Google is not caching the site.

I think there is something intrinsically wrong with cox's behavior. Worse, I now wonder how many other blackholes have been installed to protect me from the outside world?

Damn them.

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Blocked routing to makelovenotspam.com

Posted Dec 3, 2004 3:41 UTC (Fri) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

From ph.ph.cox.net (phoenix), a tracepath shows that it's not Cox doing
the blocking as it gets out of the cox.net domain just fine, but rather
level3.net, one of the backbones, some of which are blocking it. It
switches from cox to bbnplanet to level3 all here in Phoenix, heads on
level3 to San Jose, and the last returning hop is the second one in San
Jose, so<number>.edge1.sanjose1.level3.net. No reply from anything beyond
that.

Anyway, it doesn't seem to be Cox, but level3, the backbone.

Duncan