You're not trying hard enough. I spent an afternoon on the phone with an ISP in Boston letting them know their BGP was hosed, and consequently black hole'ing my

You're not trying hard enough. I spent an afternoon on the phone with an ISP in Boston letting them know their BGP was hosed, and consequently black hole'ing my traffic. I had the traceroutes and whois data to prove it. Nowadays though, it is getting much harder to do so however. I know there's a secret IRC of black belt NetOps out there, but I haven't managed to figure out how to route myself there yet. (Rumor has it there's a router out there with a reliably flaky network card that'll mangle the packets juuuuuust right. Personally, I think it's all hooey and someone has a really neat IPTables file complete with port knocking)