[27105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Congestion or regression testing DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Bligh)
Wed Feb 9 11:16:26 2000
From: Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "08 Feb 2000 22:30:40 PST."
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sean@donelan.com said:
> In January there were several reports of unusually large amounts of
> traffic. This caused congestion problems at several different places,
> but no provider or company made any public reports.
You will also find these corelate well (IMHO) with periods of high
packet loss over stress points like MAE-East (even for those not being
attacked - HoB) if my guess is right. It needs someone with better
measurement tools than I have to confirm this.
--
Alex Bligh
VP Core Network, Concentric Network Corporation
(formerly GX Networks, Xara Networks)
