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Re: distributed attack, high or not
From: Avleen Vig <lists-nanog () silverwraith com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 02:09:04 +0000 (GMT)
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Joseph T. Klein wrote:
I saw what appears to be a distributed attack against a single IP address that reached nearly 500Mbs. I was thinking that this is high. Are people seeing any random attacks of this magnitude?
Please define random :) If you mean the source is random, then yes this attack is of a high magnitude and I've seen one other this bad. The addresses could be real, or spoofed - depending on the circumstance and exact nature of the attack it'll vary. If you mean the target appears to be random, then you're probably just very very unlucky :( Attacks of this size are normally aimed at large IRC servers or large / popular websites. -- Avleen Vig Network Security Officer Smurf Amplifier Finding Executive: http://www.ircnetops.org/smurf
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