----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 2:31 AM Subject: Al Jazeera DOSed or just lots of traffic : : Al Jazeera's web site (www.aljazeera.net) has been intermittently : unavailable today. Al Jazeera's spokesperson indicated it might be : hackers, but it could have just been lots of people trying to reach the : web site to see the pictures US television networks wouldn't broadcast, : overloading their servers. : : That's the only "high visibility" problem I've heard of so far. There : has been the normal background level of stuff on the net, cable cuts, web : defacements, perpetual ddos attacks, etc. : It was DDoSed even the nameservers routes were null due to the DDoS huge size. Thanks, -Abdullah