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Re: Level3 routing issues?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Tue Jan 28 00:14:21 2003

Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 05:13:32 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301250111510.20558-100000@paixhost.pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu




On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Bill Woodcock wrote:

>
>       On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>     > > Lots of traffic on udp port 1434 coming in here via TW Telecom and Sprint
>     > > Looks like we may have a winner for DDoS of the year (so far)
>     > What kind of traffic levels are you seeing?
>
> I'm working on it for some friends, and I'm seeing about 900mbits/second
> on a gigabit link coming out of their hosting facility.  Lots and lots of
> Microsoft crap in there, I guess.

gotcha beat :) dual gig pipes, each with sustained 780mbps... from one
facility, 1.5+gbps sustained!!!

>
> Somebody remind me why Microsoft is still allowed to exist?
>

I think the reason is somewhere in layer8 eh?? Certianly NOT due to any
good technical reason.


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