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Re: Level3 routing issues?

  • From: Stephen J. Wilcox
  • Date: Sat Jan 25 11:41:50 2003 
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Bill Woodcock wrote:

> 
>       On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>     > > Lots of traffic on udp port 1434 coming in here via TW Telecom and Sprint
>     > > Looks like we may have a winner for DDoS of the year (so far)
>     > What kind of traffic levels are you seeing?
> 
> I'm working on it for some friends, and I'm seeing about 900mbits/second
> on a gigabit link coming out of their hosting facility.  Lots and lots of
> Microsoft crap in there, I guess.
> 
> Somebody remind me why Microsoft is still allowed to exist?

Dunno, arent they negligent? 

In any other industry a fundemental flaw would be met with lawsuits, in the
computer world tho people seem to get around for some reason. 

Steve