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Re: DOS in progress ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Aug 6 12:44:42 2009

To: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:12:23 CDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:44:05 -0400
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

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On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:12:23 CDT, Jorge Amodio said:
> > "We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status
> > again shortly."
> 
> Could be interesting if folks @Twitter take pictures or better video about how
> are they defending against the attack.
> 
> Do they wear special helmets and cyber pitchforks ?

Blow up a fail-whale and let the falling chunks of blubber do the work.

There's even good instructional videos on the net on how to deploy this. ;)


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