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Re: NTP DRDos Blog post

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Thu Feb 20 15:06:53 2014

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 20:05:55 +0000
In-Reply-To: <53065CD5.7060007@nuclearfallout.net>
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On Feb 21, 2014, at 2:51 AM, John <jw@nuclearfallout.net> wrote:

> I know how much Gibson is hated in some circles,

He isn't/wasn't part of the operational community. =20

It sure looks like you're right, he coined it then - as a marketing term, f=
or marketing himself, heh.  Maybe that's one of the reasons it's so dislike=
d.

;>

> I read that in 2002, did other research about it in 2002, saw reflected a=
ttacks in 2002.

I saw reflected/amplified attacks in 2002, too, and that's what I called th=
em.  So did everyone else I worked with to mitigate them, heh.

And I'm really going to shut up about this, now.

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