<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><div class="">On 3 Feb 2017, at 12:34, Patrick W. Gilmore via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" class="">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">“hammered”?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I remember the time AT&T called me and said they were going to turn off the Akamai servers in their network because they were “hammering” AT&T users. I (not so) patiently explained to them the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show was being streamed live, and their users might get a weeeeeee bit upset if the feed suddenly went away.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I remember fielding similar abuse calls who insisted that they were being attacked "BY <a href="http://F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET" class="">F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET</a> ON SOURCE PORT 53".</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I'll shut up now, before anybody feels the need to remind me that this is not a discussion list. I'm still interested in what the original question meant, though.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Joe</div></div></body></html>