[52907] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Wed Oct 23 09:12:55 2002
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:10:36 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* randy@psg.com (Randy Bush) [Wed 23 Oct 2002, 00:54 CEST]:
> 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
The BBC website has an article with rather more nuance than some other
online news outlets appear to have.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2352667.stm
| "As best we can tell, no user noticed and the attack was dealt with
| and life goes on," said Louis Touton, vice president for the Internet
| Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the running
| of the root servers and the net's addressing system.
The article calls it a "failed attack" and features a picture of a few
big sea waves. It also features a link to an article named "Fighting
zombie machines" - this also says something good about the clue level
at BBC News, I think.
Regards,
-- Niels.
