[74732] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BCP38 making it work, solving problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Wed Oct 13 08:06:39 2004
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:00:57 +0200
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@mail.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <16749.6292.595583.877573@ran.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 04:59 AM 13-10-04 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> > For the week starting Sept 12, our dark space telescope "saw"
> > 1675 spoofed DDOS attacks.
>
>any idea why someone(s) is ddosing dark space? seems a bit silly.
No one is DDOSing dark space. The dark space telescope picks up the
"richochets" caused by DDOS. CAIDA created a nice 90 second video clip
explaining this at:
http://www.caida.org/outreach/resources/animations/passive_monitoring/backscatter.mpg
-Hank
>randy
