[SATLUG] ATT Thanks you

[Luis Garza]

On Sunday 07 January 2007 12:45 pm, John Champion wrote:
> Might I suggest, for the time being, that you disconnect your network from
> DSL. Wait a couple of hours, and then reconnect.
>
> That should do one of two things, stop the attack for the time being, thus
> terminating exposure and/or give you a new IP provided you are on ATT's
> Dynamic IP allotment.
>
> You can also turn off whatever service on your machine that they are trying
> to hack, by default, I have ping turned off and telnet.
>
> You may also try adding this IP to your hosts.deny file.
>
> Good luck to you.
>
I thought that you all would see the humor in the chat conversation.

I IPTABLES the IP address but still, they should have responded better.

I guess that hacking is OK on their networks because there is nobody to really 
stop them.  How nice.