[52884] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Tue Oct 22 19:12:42 2002
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:11:27 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0210221713410.19530-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 05:15:21PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> 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.
Looked like a pretty piddly and unintelligent smurf/ping flood combo to
me. The state of the so-called "experts" saddens me more with each passing
day.
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Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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