[52869] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: root servers DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Oct 21 18:16:55 2002
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:15:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <082e01c2794e$ab6fdc40$3500080a@PHE>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Petri Helenius wrote:
> I=B4ve prettier graphs. I sent the mail after the performance started lac=
king
> asking if anyone has an idea what=B4s going on and where the traffic is
> originating.
Best guess, its a smurf attack. Networks which still have ip
directed-broadcast (or your vendor's equivalent) enabled on interfaces.
Its still amazing how much traffic it can generate.
