[73283] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SYN flood atacks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Wed Aug 18 13:13:08 2004
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:12:23 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
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
we took around a gig of port 80 syn flooding to a customer web host, it was
around 12-3pm utc.. ended when the customer disappeared off the net. not sure if
this is unusual tho, theres hundreds of such attacks per day globally...
Steve
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, 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
>
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> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
