Reaseon for AS&PI

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Jevgenijs Vaikulis wrote:

Hi,
The best way (if it possible!) to stop such attacks:
ask your upstream provider to investigate the situation (if you can't
do it yourself) in order to filter the address/net on his backbone router.

> Hello,
>
>   Before writing request to RIPE for new AS and PI i would like to ask
>   Your advice. The main reason for new AS(and PI) - security. We provide some
>   services for local (national, like *.lv) users only (like irc).
>   Firewall dosnt helps, when attacker send a ton of flood our
>   international channel going down. With a AS ill anounce this AS only
>   for national providers. So, is it reason for gettin A&PI? If someone
>   have expirience with such problem, i`ll be very grateful for advice.
>
>   P.S. Sorry for my poor english.
>
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>   Jevgenijs Vaikulis(EV298-RIPE)                   +371 7777723
>   DELFI Internet                                   +371 7777777
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Regards,
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Vladimir V. Lobanov
Macomnet, Internet-Intranet Dep.
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