[48932] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: if anyone would like to help...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Wed Jun 19 22:35:34 2002
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:33:44 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: Stephen Griffin <stephen.griffin@rcn.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200206200225.WAA08857@elektra.ultra.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
what kind of traffic did it generate during the DOS?
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Stephen Griffin wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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