[72828] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Linneweh)
Tue Jul 27 18:14:17 2004
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:10:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0407271727270.22304@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
While I disagree with the method of the attacker, I
can understand the reasoning behind an attack on a
company that is considered a spyware company,
doubleclick certainly has turned up more than once on
my version of spybot as a site to block.....
-Henry
--- Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>
>
>
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.
>
>
