One of my peers had a DOS against one of their colo customers. Effected their/our connection to Level 3. Appx 11:05am EDT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Matt Taber tabes@wmis.net WMIS Internet http://www.wmis.net "Accelerate ... It's a Speed Thing" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ jgraun@comcast.net wrote:
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? > > You will need to be more specific. > > 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. > >