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Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Wed Jan 24 17:40:48 2001

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http://www.wirednews.com/news/business/0,1367,41387,00.html

Looks like they're still denying the DDOS possibility but are doing so
with less enthusiasm. Packet loss appears to be constrained to the last
hop, so it's feasible that this is the result of a targetted attack.

"we are horribly sorry, please put yourself in our shoes and have a little
patience."

-- 
Eric A. Hall                                        http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols          http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/


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