[33852] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Roesen)
Wed Jan 24 19:38:36 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:51:44 +0100
From: Daniel Roesen <droesen@entire-systems.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <3A6F49E4.A8928D81@ehsco.com>; from ehall@ehsco.com on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:32:21PM -0800
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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:32:21PM -0800, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> 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.
Imagine what happens when all cached RRs expire worldwide. With
people hammering for microsoft.com DNS resolution. This can easily
translate to a "DDoS" to the four listed nameservers :->
A kinda self-brewn DDoS, because they don't manage to get backup DNS
servers up before all the cached RRs expire. :-]
Someone please send them a copy of DNS&Bind?
