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Wow Richard, I can't believe how incredibly helpful you are. You deserve an award or something. I mean really! Talk about going above and beyond the call of duty, wow! How do I nominate you for sainthood for all the major religions? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <[email protected]> To: "Ariel Biener" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 4:40 PM Subject: Re: DDoS attacks > > > For the last few days, I have experienced a series of DDoS attacks > > on various targets around the globe. The general target is the EFNet > > irc network, and servers have been attacked all through Europe, USA, > > Canada, Israel, and such. > > Wow, EFNet is being attacked? That's never happened before. Someone should > alert the media. > > > Due to the various attacks, more than half of the servers on the > > network were black holed (null routed). The others which hold 1/3 of > > the client count, are attacked, or going to be attacked soon. > > Perhaps because there are only 5 servers which actually accept clients? > > > If this keeps on going, this irc network will cease to exist. > > Oh the humanity. > > > In this time of need, it would be a great help if the large > > carriers would be helpful in tracing the traffic. > > Hrm you may have an idea there. Since so many attacks are related to > EFNet, and there are so many possible reasons for it to be impacting the > rest of the internet, I propose we introduce a new ICMP type, ICMP EFNet. > This message type could be used to convey all kinds of important > information about why things are broken, for example: > > ICMP EFNet code 1 - Smurfing > ICMP EFNet code 2 - SYN Flooding > ICMP EFNet code 3 - Channel takeover > ICMP EFNet code 4 - Warring botnets > ICMP EFNet code 5 - Dianora > > and many other useful messages. > > -- > Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras > PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6) >
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