We are very sorry (fwd)

[Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>]

     This is one rare instance where an intermediate site used in a smurf
attack discovered it.  Unfortunately, for every site that fixes their security
so they can't be used as a smurf relay, there are 1000 more that aren't even
aware of it, and another 1000 that are but won't do anything to fix it. 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:21:10 +0900 (JST)
From: Shinsuke Miwa <s-miwa@jaist.ac.jp>
To: postmaster@eskimo.com
Cc: s-miwa@jaist.ac.jp
Subject: We are very sorry
Resent-Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 21:29:56 -0700 (PDT)
Resent-From: Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>
Resent-To: outages-list@eskimo.com

Dear eskimo.com Administrator,

We are writing to apologize for our networks being used to crack
your host.

Our networks was used as an relayer network in a denial-of-service
smurf.

This attack damaged a host

	eskimo.com (204.122.16.13)

on your site during the period of:

	 2000/05/29:14:55:01-2000/05/29:15:05:01 JST

This is because of our loose measures against Internet abuses, and we
are sincerely sorry for that.  We have already filtered broadcast
icmp packets from the network.

For preventing this kind of incident from happening in the future,
we are going to take strict measures against the Internet abuses.


Faithfully yours,


Kouichirou Ochimizu
Director, Center for Information Science
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology