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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever
i think we would benefit from a traceroute - paul - f to a and j? paul may very well be correct - but what if their internetworked with each other. paul? On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:35:06 EDT, Jeff S Wheeler <[email protected]> said: > > > > performance this seems true. However, I did notice that several of the > > servers which are operated by VeriSign were not responding to at least a > > large, 50% or greater, fraction of test queries. Even so, VeriSign was > > good enough to chime in that their root servers were unaffected. > > > > Did I mis-perceive this, or is it another bold-faced lie from VeriSign? > > If a server that can handle 500K packets/sec is sitting behind a pipe that > maxes out at 400K packets/sec, it won't be affected when the pipe is flooded. > > Most likely, half your packets were being dropped 2 or 3 hops from the > server (where the DDoS starts converging from multiple sources). So we > probably can't pin a "bold-faced lie" on VeriSign this time. Dissembling > and misleading perhaps, but not a total lie (unless somebody can prove that > the pipe still had capacity and wasn't dropping stuff) > >
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