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
