[169301] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NTP DRDos Blog post
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Shoop)
Thu Feb 20 15:00:48 2014
From: Dan Shoop <shoop@iwiring.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1402201141520.10544@soloth.lewis.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:59:49 -0500
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 20, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Brian Rak wrote:
>=20
>> That's not a new term.
>>=20
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRDOS
>> DRDoS, a type of network attack named Distributed Reflection Denial =
of Service.
>> =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Reflection_Denial_of_Service#Refl=
ected_.2F_Spoofed_attack
>=20
> Or Digital Research Disk Operating System...if you're old enough.
> Who knew DRDOS would become popular [again]?
I had wondered what the problem was, older than age, with anyone trying =
to run DRDOS. It should fit in the memory and cpu footprint of a modern =
toaster.=20
-d=20
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