[27151] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher B. Zydel)
Wed Feb 9 17:55:52 2000
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 18:01:33 -0500
From: "Christopher B. Zydel" <czydel@aralan.net>
To: Richard Steenbergen <ras@above.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> T1's are cheap, OC12s are not cheap.
That may be the case, but I think that Kim hit the nail on the
head earlier. With the number of multi-megabit connected homes
growing rapidly, there is a rapidly growing number of exploitable
hosts for those perpetrating DDoS attacks to take advtange of.
/cbz
