Re: BCP38 making it work, solving problems

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () mail iucc ac il>]

At 04:59 AM 13-10-04 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> > For the week starting Sept 12, our dark space telescope "saw"
> > 1675 spoofed DDOS attacks.
>
> any idea why someone(s) is ddosing dark space?  seems a bit silly.

No one is DDOSing dark space.  The dark space telescope picks up the 
"richochets" caused by DDOS.  CAIDA created a nice 90 second video clip 
explaining this at:
http://www.caida.org/outreach/resources/animations/passive_monitoring/backscatter.mpg

-Hank


> randy