Sorry I didnt take the smart ass factor into account when I posted.  I have heard that AOL and other mega proxies have been sending enough SYN floods (DDoS style) to knock over Discover and Allstate.  I am not talking about small amounts of normal traffic.

Jason

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> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 jgraun@comcast.net wrote:
> > I have been hearing rumors about some SYN flood atacks on the Internet
> > today. Anybody hear anything?
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> You will need to be more specific.
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> There are syn flood attacks, icmp attacks, udp attacks, tcp attacks, dns
> attacks, http attacks, im attacks, ipsec attacks, etc going on every day,
> all day.
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