[67058] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did Wanadoo, French ISP, block access to SCO?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun Feb 1 17:38:34 2004
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 00:36:34 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040201173130.058ccfc8@209.112.4.2>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>> Have any other ISPs taken similar action?
>
>
> Not here. The only thing different I did was
> ndc querylog
> tail -f /var/log/daemon | grep www.sco.com
>
> on my recursive servers and I have been .... underwhelmed by the output
>
Maybe SCO just got overwhelmed by the requests by the people who are
curious if
the site is still up and they were not prepared to serve more than the
average lawsuit-
interested number of hits they do by default? Call it a socially
engineered DDoS.
Pete
