[27187] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Info on the DoS attacks.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Snyder)
Wed Feb 9 22:57:38 2000
From: Larry Snyder <larrys@lexis-nexis.com>
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 22:50:35 -0500 (EST)
To: declan@wired.com
Cc: largo@megatokyo.com, nanog@merit.edu
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From what I've read so far, it's still not clear whether it was an
attack on a host(s) or a pipe(s). It probably wouldn't be a bad idea
to release at least that much info....
-ls-
Declan McCullagh <declan@wired.com> wrote:
>
> From my perspective, corporations are filtering information through
> clueless PR flacks to a (relatively clueless) media. I can't buy that sites
> hit by an attack 48 hours ago "have no idea what is going on." If that's
> the case, some people need to be fired real quick.
>
> -Declan
>
> At 21:24 2/9/2000 -0600, Rodney Caston wrote:
> >It's because people are being very closed mouthed with this, the corps
> >either have no idea what is going on or do not wish to share what they
> >know, and those involved with the attacks have done a good job of keeping
> >silent. Besides comparing Morris's worm to what is going on now is hardly
> >fair, the net was a very different place then, and his cpu cycle hog of a
> >program was alot easier to deal with and detect.
>
