[52874] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: root servers DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Mon Oct 21 19:07:45 2002
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 21 Oct 2002 23:07:14 +0000
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0210211811170.16416-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
sean@donelan.com (Sean Donelan) writes:
> 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.
however, this attack was icmp request, not icmp reply.
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Paul Vixie
