[145307] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: he.net down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Oct 3 19:33:21 2011
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <20111003232508.GA25449@li92-81.konadogs.net>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 19:33:10 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 3, 2011, at 7:25 PM, Nate Itkin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:14:03PM +0000, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
>> Our session with them is up and down at Any2 at OWB.
>>=20
>> ------Original Message------
>> From: Aiden Sullivan
>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: he.net down?
>> Sent: Oct 3, 2011 3:35 PM
>>=20
>> www.he.net seems to be down on both IPv4 and IPv6 -- does anyone know =
what is
>> going on?
>> --=20
>> Aiden
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>=20
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> Blaming DDOS. http://status.linode.com
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> "The incident was a probable DDOS attack, but its behavior was unusual =
and difficult to identify. Our network engineers made some adjustments =
to the DOS countermeasures acquired after last week's incident, and that =
seems to have stabilized traffic flow. We apologize for the =
inconvenience. -Ben Larsen Hurricane Electric Internet Services"
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> Some supporting evidence would be nice.
Exactly what do you expect a network which is attacked to post to NANOG, =
or a random web page, to "prove" they were attacked? Given the 1000s of =
network outages over the last decade, I can think of maybe a handful =
that supplied "supporting evidence".
As I said before, Mike & the gang at HE are stand-up people. If they =
said it was a DoS, it was a DoS - although I note they did not say it =
was a DoS, just probably a DoS. But I extend my faith if their lack of =
prevarication to even statement as well. In fact, it speaks well that =
they are being equivocal until they are certain themselves.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
