Re: Mega DOS tomorrow?

2004-08-26 Thread Måns Nilsson
--On onsdag 25 augusti 2004 14.53 -0400 Andy Dills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, slashdot is linking to some news sites that are reporting that > Aleksandr Gostev from Kapersky Labs in Russia has predicted that a large > chunk of the net will be shut down tomorrow. FWIW, we (Nordunet/Sunet) to

Re: Mega DOS tomorrow?

2004-08-26 Thread Alan Spicer
rsday, August 26, 2004 9:21 AM Subject: RE: Mega DOS tomorrow? Can you hear me now? (I'm testing my verizon circuits ;-) ) On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 08:46, Jason Graun wrote: > Hello! Can anybody hear me?! This the Internet still there?! > > > Thanks > > > Jason :)

RE: Mega DOS tomorrow?

2004-08-26 Thread Bill Jones
Can you hear me now? Good. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Allermann Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mega DOS tomorrow? Can you hear me now? (I'm testing my verizon circuits ;-)

RE: Mega DOS tomorrow?

2004-08-26 Thread Chris Allermann
Can you hear me now? (I'm testing my verizon circuits ;-) ) On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 08:46, Jason Graun wrote: > Hello! Can anybody hear me?! This the Internet still there?! > > > Thanks > > > Jason :)

RE: Mega DOS tomorrow?

2004-08-26 Thread Jason Graun
Hello! Can anybody hear me?! This the Internet still there?! Thanks Jason :)

Re: Mega DOS tomorrow?

2004-08-25 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Might be interesting to see how much of a traffic blip this causes. Isn't Microsoft heavily Akamai:zed (or something equivalent)? I am usually able to download patches at 5+ megabyte/s if I am on an internet connection able to handle it, so some k

Re: Mega DOS tomorrow?

2004-08-25 Thread Jay Hennigan
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Andy Dills wrote: > So, slashdot is linking to some news sites that are reporting that > Aleksandr Gostev from Kapersky Labs in Russia has predicted that a large > chunk of the net will be shut down tomorrow. FYI, Google returns 9,250 hits on the search string: "imminent de

Re: Mega DOS tomorrow?

2004-08-25 Thread Jeff Shultz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:53:44 EDT, Andy Dills said: So, slashdot is linking to some news sites that are reporting that Aleksandr Gostev from Kapersky Labs in Russia has predicted that a large chunk of the net will be shut down tomorrow. And here's the *real* reason why: XP2

Re: Mega DOS tomorrow?

2004-08-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:53:44 EDT, Andy Dills said: > So, slashdot is linking to some news sites that are reporting that > Aleksandr Gostev from Kapersky Labs in Russia has predicted that a large > chunk of the net will be shut down tomorrow. And here's the *real* reason why: XP2 SP2 goes on AU to

Re: Mega DOS tomorrow?

2004-08-25 Thread Elvedin Trnjanin
> > > So, slashdot is linking to some news sites that are reporting that > Aleksandr Gostev from Kapersky Labs in Russia has predicted that a large > chunk of the net will be shut down tomorrow. > > I thought the ISC comment was pretty funny: > > http://isc.sans.org/diary.php > -- > e-Jihad Begins

Re: Mega DOS tomorrow?

2004-08-25 Thread Jared Mauch
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:59:51PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: > > >The ISC would like to go out on a limb and predict that the Internet will > >not vaporize into a cloud of nothingness this Thursday, but if it does, > >it's been our pleasure to help stave off its inevitable annihilation this > >lo

Re: Mega DOS tomorrow?

2004-08-25 Thread Deepak Jain
The ISC would like to go out on a limb and predict that the Internet will not vaporize into a cloud of nothingness this Thursday, but if it does, it's been our pleasure to help stave off its inevitable annihilation this long. -- I didn't want to be the first to bring it up today, but what I _love_

Mega DOS tomorrow?

2004-08-25 Thread Andy Dills
So, slashdot is linking to some news sites that are reporting that Aleksandr Gostev from Kapersky Labs in Russia has predicted that a large chunk of the net will be shut down tomorrow. I thought the ISC comment was pretty funny: http://isc.sans.org/diary.php -- e-Jihad Begins Thursday, Internet