[48930] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: if anyone would like to help...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Griffin)
Wed Jun 19 22:26:54 2002
In-Reply-To: <20020620002019.45662.qmail@web11208.mail.yahoo.com> from Earnest Guevera at "Jun 19, 2002 05:20:19 pm"
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:25:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Griffin <stephen.griffin@rcn.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In the referenced message, Earnest Guevera said:
>
> If anyone is in a position to assist...
>
> 2600 IRC SERVER OFFLINE INDEFINITELY
> Posted 18 Jun 2002 07:13:36 UTC
>
> As a result of a massive Denial of Service attack of
> biblical proportions, we no longer have a home for
> irc.2600.net.
Hmm, I wonder if a content hoster might take this up
for the sole purpose of evening a traffic ratio to be in-line
with certain peering policies.
Assuming the DoS was of the usual send overwhelming amounts of traffic
at the victim variety.
