[27439] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whois broke again?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (NANOG Mailing List)
Sun Feb 20 02:04:39 2000
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 02:02:36 -0500 (EST)
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To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: John Hawkinson <jhawk@bbnplanet.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> A few days ago a total of 13 sites got DOS'ed, for an average of
> a few hours each, and that got MAJOR press coverage. It's surprising
> there wasn't a similar fuss the time that 30% of the .com's were
> dropped on the floor due to a undetected disk-full condition, and
> sites were having sporadic problems for several DAYS till all the DNS
> caches timed out, or the time a few days later there was ANOTHER
> problem, or the time.....
>
> Let's face it guys, taken on the "number of sites times outage time"
> basis, NSI operational issues have screwed a *LOT* more of the 4
> million .COM's out there than trin00 has....
OK. So NSI gets the award for the first "real" dDOS years ago. And all
they needed were the root servers.
John Fraizer
