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Re: Great job AT&T (re: Microsoft problems)

  • From: Daniel Roesen
  • Date: Wed Jan 24 19:44:00 2001 
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:32:21PM -0800, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> Looks like they're still denying the DDOS possibility but are doing so
> with less enthusiasm. Packet loss appears to be constrained to the last
> hop, so it's feasible that this is the result of a targetted attack.

Imagine what happens when all cached RRs expire worldwide. With
people hammering for microsoft.com DNS resolution. This can easily
translate to a "DDoS" to the four listed nameservers :->

A kinda self-brewn DDoS, because they don't manage to get backup DNS
servers up before all the cached RRs expire. :-]

Someone please send them a copy of DNS&Bind?