[132546] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wikileaks unreachable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Esler)
Sun Nov 28 20:56:47 2010
From: Joel Esler <joel.esler@me.com>
In-reply-to: <641A960F-2C19-4C28-B794-41C32413CDB2@americafree.tv>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:56:34 -0500
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've heard it's a DOS (not DDOS) according to twitter. Allegedly according to the person doing the DOS:
Just so we are all straight and clear - wikileaks hit is not a
'Distributed' DoS, its a simple DoS - I dont use intermediaries or
botnets. Sun Nov 16 - 15:28 EST
http://twitter.com/th3j35t3r
Joel
On Nov 28, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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> On Nov 28, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Wil Schultz wrote:
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>> DOS is probably because they released some more stuff.
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>> "Secret US Embassy Cables"
>> http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/
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> DDOS according to this
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> http://www.securityweek.com/wikileaks-under-denial-service-attack-ddos
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> Regards
> Marshall
>
>> -wil
>>
>> On Nov 28, 2010, at 1:38 PM, James Downs wrote:
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>>> On Nov 28, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
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>>>> anyone know why https://www.wikileaks.org/ is not reachable? nations
>>>> state level censors trying to close the barn door after the horse has
>>>
>>> Reported they were under attack: http://bgg.lv/h2pmsd
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