Re: Planet-Lab.org traffic

2012-03-22 Thread Drew Linsalata
In fairness to the PlanetLab folks, I did get a response to my original ticket and someone from NANOG also contacted me after my post. I do appreciate that. I will repeat that the traffic is not malicious, but it might be a more friendly policy to allow network operators to automatically opt-out o

Re: Planet-Lab.org traffic

2012-03-22 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Drew Linsalata wrote: > Has anyone else had to deal with this, or is anyone connected to that people get dos'd (or think they do, not you in this case) regularly. > particular project listening?  Im all for academic projects, but the > approach here is rubbing me

Planet-Lab.org traffic

2012-03-22 Thread Drew Linsalata
At about 17:40 EDT today we started seeing traffic from planet-lab.orgnodes at 25+ US universities all directed at one of our hosting boxes. Its all ICMP and high port UDP stuff. Nothing terrible from what we can tell, but its triggering a constant stream of IDS alerts and auto-blocks. Not easy