[56958] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Al Jazeera DOSed or just lots of traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri)
Tue Mar 25 00:00:57 2003
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:59:32 +0300
From: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <arabian@ArabChat.Org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 2:31 AM
Subject: Al Jazeera DOSed or just lots of traffic
:
: Al Jazeera's web site (www.aljazeera.net) has been intermittently
: unavailable today. Al Jazeera's spokesperson indicated it might be
: hackers, but it could have just been lots of people trying to reach the
: web site to see the pictures US television networks wouldn't broadcast,
: overloading their servers.
:
: That's the only "high visibility" problem I've heard of so far. There
: has been the normal background level of stuff on the net, cable cuts, web
: defacements, perpetual ddos attacks, etc.
:
It was DDoSed even the nameservers routes were null due to the DDoS huge
size.
Thanks,
-Abdullah
