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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: distributed attack, high or not
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Joseph T. Klein wrote: > I saw what appears to be a distributed attack against a single IP > address that reached nearly 500Mbs. I was thinking that this is > high. Are people seeing any random attacks of this magnitude? Please define random :) If you mean the source is random, then yes this attack is of a high magnitude and I've seen one other this bad. The addresses could be real, or spoofed - depending on the circumstance and exact nature of the attack it'll vary. If you mean the target appears to be random, then you're probably just very very unlucky :( Attacks of this size are normally aimed at large IRC servers or large / popular websites. -- Avleen Vig Network Security Officer Smurf Amplifier Finding Executive: http://www.ircnetops.org/smurf
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