Re: What is going on in the PAC NW (Microsoft Outage)

[Clayton Fiske <clay () bloomcounty org>]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:46:26PM -0500, Vijay Gill wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Bill Fumerola wrote:
>
> > allow me to channel a few unnamed large national backbones:
> >
> > "Well if thats the case, then they should just turn off their DNS server,
> > because that's obviously the cause of the attack."
>
> Bill, don't make me smack you.
>
> The DDoS problem is endemic to the current state of hardware and software
> that comrpises the internet. There are _no_ good answers to DDoS,
> especially if the coders get smarter and start doing things like:

I think this was his point, in reference to several fairly recent
threads about DDoS on IRC networks. The "get rid of IRC and you get
rid of the attacks" opinion has surfaced a number of times here.

-c