[OT somewhat] DDOS attacks, where to report?

[shimi]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>wrote:

> Dear Linux-IL colleagues,
> An associate of mine who runs a hosting service has been the victim of
> persistent DDOS attack, apparently from botnets that are mainly located on
> other countries.
>
> His Israeli service providers have responded to these attacks by cutting
> off his service.
>
> Is there someone in ISOC-IL


Don't know (even if they would, what power do they have? besides being the
.il domain registration expensive monopoly....)


> or the police who will take a complaint seriously?


They most probably won't. Not to mention that even if they would, you can't
police foreign countries. You need Interpol. Do you think that's gonna
happen?


> I suggested that he file a complaint with the police, then with the copy
> of the complaint in-hand ask his attorney to call the service providers to
> demand restoration of service.
>
>
Did he read his contract? Did he notice "if the customer becomes a
detriment to the network..." clause?

Does his ISP need to suffer because of his business? Bandwidth cost their
money. Denial of service can cause issues to other customers, and ISP might
be hurt financially via lawsuits from said customers. Will he compensate
ISP for that?

What needs to be the threshold? Does the ISP needs to continue giving him
service if the whole ISP gets down for 4 hours, like happened last Tuesday
to 012?

-- Shimi
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