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RE: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)

  • From: Roeland M.J. Meyer
  • Date: Wed Feb 09 20:40:58 2000 
Please remember that cable-modems are asymetric and the aggregate upstream
pipe is shared.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Christopher B. Zydel
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 3:02 PM
> To: Richard Steenbergen
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
>
>
>
> > T1's are cheap, OC12s are not cheap.
>
> That may be the case, but I think that Kim hit the nail on the
> head earlier.  With the number of multi-megabit connected homes
> growing rapidly, there is a rapidly growing number of exploitable
> hosts for those perpetrating DDoS attacks to take advtange of.
>
> /cbz
>