At 7:16 AM -0700 5/5/04, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
Most ISPs do not want to be hosting zombies on their net
and they will kill them the moment they find out about them. That
is if the comunication reaches the right part of the company.
That may be true in a trivial sense (because there are more small
ISP's than big ones) but it is not true that the ISP's hosting the
largest numbers of zombies act that way. I know for a fact that at
least one of the largest broadband providers in the US does NOT do so
as a matter of intentional considered policy because they do not have
the support resources to handle all the calls they would get if they
cut off zombies as fast as they can identify them. This seems a very
likely business condition for most of the similarly situated ILEC and
cable providers who act as if they have an obligation to service
customers no matter what, much as they may be legally required to do
in their older lines of business. Whether that tendency is really a
legal issue (as some ISP abuse staff of dubious legal credentials
have implied to me) or is a matter of not wishing to trigger a legal
test or is simply an issue of corporate culture, I cannot say.
--
Bill Cole
bill(_at_)scconsult(_dot_)com
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