[33998] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: microsoft explains. again.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BillT@Mahagonny.com)
Fri Jan 26 12:26:04 2001
From: BillT@Mahagonny.com
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:23:05 -0800
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On 1/25/01, Marc Slemko wrote:
>Hmm... sounds... umh... "interesting". And certainly something that
>others could benefit from knowing the details of, at an appropriate time.
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/Jan01/01-25WebSitePR.asp
>says:
<snip>
Ya know, I wonder if this really was a DoS attack or just an
overwhelming ammount of traffic from people trying to regain access
to the MS sites. That plus all of the car wreck lookie lous who tried
to access M$ sites as soon as the outage was announced. It would be
interesting to see some numbers....
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