[73262] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SYN flood atacks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Taber)
Tue Aug 17 15:12:34 2004
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:11:43 -0400
From: Matt Taber <tabes@wmis.net>
To: jgraun@comcast.net
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <081720041848.6002.412252F600088F0A000017722200734830029A0E9D0906@comcast.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
One of my peers had a DOS against one of their colo customers.
Effected their/our connection to Level 3. Appx 11:05am EDT
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Matt Taber tabes@wmis.net
WMIS Internet http://www.wmis.net
"Accelerate ... It's a Speed Thing"
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jgraun@comcast.net wrote:
> Sorry I didnt take the smart ass factor into account when I posted. I
> have heard that AOL and other mega proxies have been sending enough SYN
> floods (DDoS style) to knock over Discover and Allstate. I am not
> talking about small amounts of normal traffic.
>
> Jason
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 jgraun@comcast.net wrote:
> > > I have been hearing rumors about some SYN flood atacks on the
> Internet
> > > today. Anybody hear anything?
> >
> > You will need to be more specific.
> >
> > There are syn flood attacks, icmp attacks, udp attacks, tcp
> attacks, dns
> > attacks, http attacks, im attacks, ipsec attacks, etc going on
> every day,
> > all day.
> >
> >
