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Re: NTP DRDos Blog post
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John)
Thu Feb 20 14:53:23 2014
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:51:49 -0800
From: John <jw@nuclearfallout.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 2/20/2014 11:43 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
> Actually, it's much more recent than that (in this context; as others have mentioned, DR-DOS was the acronym for Digital Research's MS-DOS clone).
I didn't just pluck that 12y term out of the air.
I know how much Gibson is hated in some circles, but he used it in 2002:
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~arvind/cs425/doc/drdos.pdf. I read that
in 2002, did other research about it in 2002, saw reflected attacks in 2002.
Yes, I used DRDOS, too.
-John
