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Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:10:36 +0200
* randy () psg com (Randy Bush) [Wed 23 Oct 2002, 00:54 CEST]:
when uunet or at&t takes many customers out for many hours, it's not a problem when an attack happens that was generally not even perceived by the users, it's a major disaster
The BBC website has an article with rather more nuance than some other online news outlets appear to have. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2352667.stm | "As best we can tell, no user noticed and the attack was dealt with | and life goes on," said Louis Touton, vice president for the Internet | Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the running | of the root servers and the net's addressing system. The article calls it a "failed attack" and features a picture of a few big sea waves. It also features a link to an article named "Fighting zombie machines" - this also says something good about the clue level at BBC News, I think. Regards, -- Niels.
Current thread:
- WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever Sean Donelan (Oct 22)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever Randy Bush (Oct 22)
- RE: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever Al Rowland (Oct 22)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever batz (Oct 22)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever Sean Donelan (Oct 22)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever John M. Brown (Oct 23)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever Niels Bakker (Oct 23)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever Richard A Steenbergen (Oct 22)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever Jeff Shultz (Oct 22)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever Richard A Steenbergen (Oct 22)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever Paul Vixie (Oct 22)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever Jeff S Wheeler (Oct 22)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever Paul Vixie (Oct 22)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever lordb (Oct 23)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 23)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever lordb (Oct 23)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever Jeff Shultz (Oct 22)
- Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever Randy Bush (Oct 22)