[52886] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Tue Oct 22 19:31:39 2002
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:29:58 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Jeff Shultz <jeffshul@wvi.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200210221617220328.154F580D@gateway.wvi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 04:17:22PM -0700, Jeff Shultz wrote:
>
> Does that include Paul, who was quoted? (Okay Paul - here's your chance
> to rant about how badly they misquoted you! <Grin>)
Ok I take it back, after actually reading the article. The quote is:
This was the largest and most complex DDOS attack ever against the root
server system," said a source at one of the organizations responsible for
operating the root servers.
Which is probably completely accurate, and is certainly believable. Just
because noone ever bothered to attack all the root servers at once before
doesn't make the attack used anything more than piddly. Yay to creative
editing though.
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