[90139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multi ISP DDOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Tue May 2 22:11:55 2006
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 22:11:23 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Tim Pozar <pozar@lns.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <44580A1B.9050305@lns.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 06:40:43PM -0700, Tim Pozar wrote:
> UL is seeing a large DDOS coming towards a couple of customers of ours.
> I know that other ISPs have been affected as well. I will let them
> identify them selves.
>
> Anyone have any scoop on this?
A) I don't think anyone knows who UL is by that reference alone (I assume
you mean united layer).
B) The DoS target is Livejournal.
C) As an upstream of an upstream of LJ I'm barely seeing 150Mbps or so of
it. No indications of exactly how big it is by the time it hits them,
but at least from my perspective it doesn't seem like a huge attack.
Hope it stops soon though, a sustained livejournal outage is probably
grounds for at least 4-5 suicides by distraught teenagers who can't blog
about their day. :)
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