North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: DDOS anecdotes
> So what do we do about it? There are 10th of thousands of "0wned" machines > out there. 10.000 machines sending one SYN per second to somewhere > constitutes a 6mbit SYN flood that'll make almost any web server get into > trouble. 10 SYNs per second and we're really talking traffic here. From > spoofed sources because ISPs do not source address filter? Gah. Basically > untraceable. Wouldn't it be poetic justice if/when these "Owned" Windoze machines turn their attentions to www.microsoft.com? That would get Microsoft's attention. I don't care how big their pipes or how widely distributed their servers. A DDOS like this would be devastating.
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