[33849] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is going on in the PAC NW (Microsoft Outage)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Fumerola)
Wed Jan 24 19:15:37 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:04:10 -0600
From: Bill Fumerola <billf@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20010124200722.8A01A35C42@smb.research.att.com>; from smb@research.att.com on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:07:22PM -0500
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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:07:22PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >I am amazed that this has taken so long to fix.
>
> Any chance their nameservers are being DDoSed?
allow me to channel a few unnamed large national backbones:
"Well if thats the case, then they should just turn off their DNS server,
because that's obviously the cause of the attack."
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Bill Fumerola / billf@FreeBSD.org
