Re: root servers DDoS

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Petri Helenius wrote:
> I?ve prettier graphs. I sent the mail after the performance started lacking
> asking if anyone has an idea what?s going on and where the traffic is
> originating.

Best guess, its a smurf attack. Networks which still have ip
directed-broadcast (or your vendor's equivalent) enabled on interfaces.

Its still amazing how much traffic it can generate.