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Re: BCP38 making it work, solving problems

  • From: Hank Nussbacher
  • Date: Wed Oct 13 08:08:35 2004 
At 04:59 AM 13-10-04 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:

> For the week starting Sept 12, our dark space telescope "saw"
> 1675 spoofed DDOS attacks.

any idea why someone(s) is ddosing dark space?  seems a bit silly.
No one is DDOSing dark space. The dark space telescope picks up the "richochets" caused by DDOS. CAIDA created a nice 90 second video clip explaining this at:
http://www.caida.org/outreach/resources/animations/passive_monitoring/backscatter.mpg

-Hank


randy