[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Donelan) writes:
> Best guess, its a smurf attack. Networks which still have ip
> directed-broadcast (or your vendor's equivalent) enabled on interfaces.
>
> Its still amazing how much traffic it can generate.
however, this attack was icmp request, not icmp reply.
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Pa
I don't think so. We saw problems about 15 min before the nsp-sec
list posting, and at that point the volume was turned up..
I don't beleive ICANN received any "advance" warning
but don't quote me on that. I'll go find out though
in private,
john brown
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:38:32P
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Petri Helenius wrote:
> Anyone have insight into the (seemingly) DoS attack on root-servers
> which started around 20 UTC and widened to more servers on 20:35 UTC?
>
> Not that it´s causing any serious operational problems but slows down
> things a lot.
We have automated mon
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Petri Helenius wrote:
> I´ve prettier graphs. I sent the mail after the performance started lacking
> asking if anyone has an idea what´s going on and where the traffic is
> originating.
Best guess, its a smurf attack. Networks which still have ip
directed-broadcast (or your
>You can see pretty graphs of the server performance at
>
>http://www.root-servers.net/
>http://www.cymru.com/DNS/dns.html
I´ve prettier graphs. I sent the mail after the performance started lacking
asking if anyone has an idea what´s going on and where the traffic is
originating.
Pete
That's root-servers.org, Sean.
Peter
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Petri Helenius wrote:
> Anyone have insight into the (seemingly) DoS attack on root-servers which
> started around 20 UTC and widened to more servers on 20:35 UTC?
>
> Not that it´s causing any serious operational problems but slows down things a
> lot.
You can see pretty gra
Anyone have insight into the (seemingly) DoS attack on root-servers which
started around 20 UTC and widened to more servers on 20:35 UTC?
Not that it´s causing any serious operational problems but slows down things a
lot.
Pete
