Re: Denial of service attack on port 6667

[<jer () privacy nu>]

i de-linked two servers the other day... one from chatnet... was severyly
ddosd.  Actaully was last week...

Jeremy

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Marquart" <jomarqua () indiana edu>
To: <incidents () securityfocus com>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: Denial of service attack on port 6667


> I am surprised not to have seen more traffic about this.  apparently
> yesterday and today EFnet has been nearly completely DoS'd from the
> network - causing many of their main servers to de-link.   I do not know
> many details  - I know that they are working w/ the law/other ISPs to try
> to solve the problem (Have been contacted about traffic which turned out
> to be an eggdrop bot).
>
> If anyone know more  - I know that the EFnet support staff would love to
> know more concretely where the attacks are coming from / help w/
> resolution.
>
> If you are not linked into efnet - I am not sure why you would be
> experiencing these attacks - unless someone out thre has a bone w/ all IRC
> nets.  If you are a source - yikes!
>
> -john
>
>
>
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