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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)
http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-attacks.html here hope that the links here help some Paul Ferguson wrote: > 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 > > > > > > -- Thank you; |--------------------------------------------| | Thinking is a learned process so is UNIX | |--------------------------------------------| Henry R. Linneweh
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