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Re: SYN flood atacks?

  • From: Matt Taber
  • Date: Tue Aug 17 15:13:59 2004 
One of my peers had a DOS against one of their colo customers.

Effected their/our connection to Level 3.  Appx 11:05am EDT


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Matt Taber                 [email protected]
WMIS Internet         http://www.wmis.net
"Accelerate ... It's a Speed Thing"
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[email protected] wrote:
Sorry I didnt take the smart ass factor into account when I posted. I have heard that AOL and other mega proxies have been sending enough SYN floods (DDoS style) to knock over Discover and Allstate. I am not talking about small amounts of normal traffic.

Jason

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>
>
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 [email protected] wrote:
> > I have been hearing rumors about some SYN flood atacks on the
Internet
> > today. Anybody hear anything?
>
> You will need to be more specific.
>
> There are syn flood attacks, icmp attacks, udp attacks, tcp
attacks, dns
> attacks, http attacks, im attacks, ipsec attacks, etc going on
every day,
> all day.
>
>