[27170] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Wed Feb 9 20:40:00 2000
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "Christopher B. Zydel" <czydel@aralan.net>,
"Richard Steenbergen" <ras@above.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:37:49 -0800
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Please remember that cable-modems are asymetric and the aggregate upstream
pipe is shared.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Christopher B. Zydel
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 3:02 PM
> To: Richard Steenbergen
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
>
>
>
> > 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
>
