[30328] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet FUD Abound
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed Jul 26 18:57:34 2000
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:55:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Sean Donelan wrote:
> On the other hand, there have been accidents (and perhaps some
> attacks) on the logical layer which have severely disrupted the
> Internet.
There were confirmed attacks on carrier backbone routers as
early as 1994; the most damaging was by some Internet Liberation
Front. Fortunately, they didn't have much clue about cisco
configurations, or they could pretty much disable the entire
Internet for a significant period of time.
--vadim
