On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Brandon Ross wrote:
We are currently seeing a smurf attack larger than any one we've ever seen before... it looks like it's causing us over 200Mb/s of incoming echo-reply traffic to 207.69.200.132 (our IRC server, imagine that). Please check your networks and see if you can help us trace this attack to the perpetrator, we'd love to prosecute if we can find them.
This attack has now stopped. I managed to collect over 100,000 addresses that we being used as amplifiers in this attack. If anyone would like a copy, please let me know. Brandon Ross Network Engineering 404-815-0770 800-719-4664 Director, Network Engineering, MindSpring Ent., Inc. info@mindspring.com ICQ: 2269442 Stop Smurf attacks! Configure your router interfaces to block directed broadcasts. See http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi for details.