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Re: Pakistan government orders ISP service level agreement
- From: Christopher L. Morrow
- Date: Mon May 05 13:57:16 2003
On Mon, 5 May 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> Pakistan has been suffering a 40 day DOS attack, disrupting most of the
> International Internet service in the country.
>
> The Pakistan Government, Minister for IT & Telecom, has "directed" the
> Pakistan Telecommunications Corporation to sign service level agreements
> to ensure 99% Internet availability.
>
> Over 200 official(government?) websites have been inaccessible for over
> three weeks.
>
> http://www.paknews.com/main.php?id=5&date1=2003-05-05
> "Within a period of five days, the body has been assigned to formulate
> a concrete strategy to stem the incidence of DoS attacks.. The
> committee will work on urgent basis and suggest short-term measures
> within two day."
>
I suppose contacting upstreams for traceback and filtration isn't
something they want to do??
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