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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
Declan, This is a very complex issue, and made the DDoS BoF last night even more lively. ;-) Read RFC2267. More people should be doing it, and most of these silly problems will go away. - paul At 08:31 PM 02/07/2000 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: Yahoo told me on the phone that it's a malicious attack, and Global Center says the same thing. In Yahoo's words: "a coordinated distributed denial of service attack." We've got a brief story up at: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34178,00.html The problem apparently originated with a router. But what kind of attack could have taken the network offline for that period of time and not affected other Global Center customers? I mean, there had to have been a gaping security hole somewhere: It looks like the routes got lost for (nearly) all of the Yahoo network, but no other non-Yahoo sites... -Declan
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