[52892] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dies)
Wed Oct 23 01:07:12 2002
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 01:05:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: dies <dies@pulltheplug.com>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20021022231127.GK587@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Agreed...I worked these attacks on UUNET's backbone and quite honestly
none of them was over 100mbit worth of traffic. We see this everyday,
this was nothing out of the ordinary except the destination...
Shrug...fear is an easy weapon to wield, eh?
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
> 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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