[72826] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Jul 27 17:32:22 2004
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:28:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0407271233060.21303@clifden.donelan.com>
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18735-2004Jul27.html
DoubleClick spokeswoman Jennifer Blum said the attack targeted the
company's domain name servers (DNS) -- machines that help direct
Internet traffic -- causing "severe service disruptions" for all 900 of
its customers. Blum said the outage was caused by a distributed
denial-of-service attack, in which hackers use the firepower of
thousands of hijacked computers to flood a Web site with so many bogus
Web page requests that it renders the site unavailable to legitimate
users.
[...]
The FBI is not investigating the incident because DoubleClick has not
filed a report, said bureau spokeswoman Megan Baroska.