[52882] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Oct 22 18:54:05 2002
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:53:31 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A828-2002Oct22.html
>
> The heart of the Internet sustained its largest and most sophisticated
> attack ever, starting late Monday, according to officials at key online
> backbone organizations.
when uunet or at&t takes many customers out for many hours, it's not
a problem
when an attack happens that was generally not even perceived by the
users, it's a major disaster
i love the press
randy
