[30614] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DDOS attacks lately?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn McMahon)
Sun Aug 20 08:27:11 2000
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 08:24:43 -0400
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.95.1000819194335.16369A-100000@world.std.com>; from jcomeau@world.std.com on Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 08:27:13PM -0400
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On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 08:27:13PM -0400, John O Comeau wrote:
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> Another interesting point to note is that lately, most attacks have been
> for the age-old purpose of taking over IRC channels by knocking out
> the host on which the operator's bot is running. At least, none of my
> clients have seen their websites getting attacked lately. Maybe the calm
> before the storm?
Hence, if all the IRC networks would implement Chanserv, and educate users,
these attacks would decrease.
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