[33999] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: microsoft explains. again.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Fri Jan 26 12:36:51 2001
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Message-Id: <200101261727.MAA10741@sigma.nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:27:54 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <p05010401b697621dc03f@[199.249.215.222]> from "BillT@Mahagonny.com" at Jan 26, 2001 09:23:05 AM
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> 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....
As one press report mentioned, Billy ships his sw to default
to hitting their site at startup...so that when you break that,
lots-a-users are stalled dead..
Wonder if that's a factor...
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