[27054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry R. Linneweh)
Tue Feb 8 12:34:56 2000
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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 09:26:37 -0800
From: "Henry R. Linneweh" <linneweh@concentric.net>
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To: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
Cc: Declan McCullagh <declan@wired.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-attacks.html
here hope that the links here help some
Paul Ferguson wrote:
> Declan,
>
> This is a very complex issue, and made the DDoS BoF last
> night even more lively. ;-)
>
> Read RFC2267. More people should be doing it, and most of
> these silly problems will go away.
>
> - paul
>
> At 08:31 PM 02/07/2000 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> >Yahoo told me on the phone that it's a malicious attack, and Global Center
> >says the same thing. In Yahoo's words: "a coordinated distributed denial of
> >service attack."
> >
> >We've got a brief story up at:
> > http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34178,00.html
> >
> >The problem apparently originated with a router. But what kind of attack
> >could have taken the network offline for that period of time and not
> >affected other Global Center customers? I mean, there had to have been a
> >gaping security hole somewhere: It looks like the routes got lost for
> >(nearly) all of the Yahoo network, but no other non-Yahoo sites...
> >
> >-Declan
> >
> >
> >
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Thank you;
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