Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)

["Henry R. Linneweh" <linneweh () concentric net>]

http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-attacks.html
here hope that the links here help some

Paul Ferguson wrote:

> Declan,
>
> This is a very complex issue, and made the DDoS BoF last
> night even more lively. ;-)
>
> Read RFC2267. More people should be doing it, and most of
> these silly problems will go away.
>
> - paul
>
> At 08:31 PM 02/07/2000 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> > Yahoo told me on the phone that it's a malicious attack, and Global Center
> > says the same thing. In Yahoo's words: "a coordinated distributed denial of
> > service attack."
> >
> > We've got a brief story up at:
> >    http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34178,00.html
> >
> > The problem apparently originated with a router. But what kind of attack
> > could have taken the network offline for that period of time and not
> > affected other Global Center customers? I mean, there had to have been a
> > gaping security hole somewhere: It looks like the routes got lost for
> > (nearly) all of the Yahoo network, but no other non-Yahoo sites...
> >
> > -Declan

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