[34005] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: microsoft explains. again.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian)
Fri Jan 26 17:41:28 2001
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:39:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org>
To: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
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ah yes, kinda like in daze past when netscape had issued, and people would
call in saying the net is down cuz home.netscape.com didn't work..
Bri
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, David Lesher wrote:
>
> > 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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