[56961] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Al Jazeera DOSed or just lots of traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (james)
Tue Mar 25 01:43:41 2003
From: "james" <hackerwacker@cybermesa.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 23:42:47 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, james wrote:
: > : It was DDoSed even the nameservers routes were null due to the DDoS huge
: > : size.
: >
: > I noticed today that a traceroute to this host from my network exited
: > at 4 or 5 hops on west coast at a major providers network.
:
: Its common for popular web sites to locate their major servers
: topologically in the network away from their organization's geographic
Sorry I was not clear. I ment someone was null routing this host
way before I got close to the destination.
