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Martin Hannigan wrote: > > At 10:11 PM 5/2/2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > >> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 06:40:43PM -0700, Tim Pozar wrote: >> > UL is seeing a large DDOS coming towards a couple of customers of ours. >> > I know that other ISPs have been affected as well. I will let them >> > identify them selves. >> > >> > Anyone have any scoop on this? >> >> A) I don't think anyone knows who UL is by that reference alone (I assume >> you mean united layer). >> >> B) The DoS target is Livejournal. >> >> C) As an upstream of an upstream of LJ I'm barely seeing 150Mbps or so of >> it. No indications of exactly how big it is by the time it hits them, >> but at least from my perspective it doesn't seem like a huge attack. >> >> Hope it stops soon though, a sustained livejournal outage is probably >> grounds for at least 4-5 suicides by distraught teenagers who can't blog >> about their day. :) > > > Add in the Blue Security DDOS. NSP-SEC must be busy defending DDoS'ers > tonight > keeping them from helping people defend LiveJournal. > > Uh. Who let the Frog out? > > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,70798-0.html?tw=rss.technology > Blue Security's solution to their DOS was to point their www to their Typepad-hosted blog. apogee:/home/pedro> host www.bluesecurity.com www.bluesecurity.com is a nickname for bluesecurity.blogs.com bluesecurity.blogs.com has address 204.9.178.61 apogee:/home/pedro> whois -h whois.arin.net 204.9.178.61 OrgName: SIX APART LTD OrgID: SAL-48 [...] How's that for honorable comportment. We're getting slammed so we're gonna make it someone else's problem(and not give them a heads up). -- Peter Wohlers
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