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Re: root servers DDoS

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Mon Oct 21 18:19:26 2002 
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Petri Helenius wrote:
> I´ve prettier graphs. I sent the mail after the performance started lacking
> asking if anyone has an idea what´s going on and where the traffic is
> originating.

Best guess, its a smurf attack. Networks which still have ip
directed-broadcast (or your vendor's equivalent) enabled on interfaces.

Its still amazing how much traffic it can generate.