If anyone is in a position to assist... 2600 IRC SERVER OFFLINE INDEFINITELY Posted 18 Jun 2002 07:13:36 UTC As a result of a massive Denial of Service attack of biblical proportions, we no longer have a home for irc.2600.net. It's rather ironic that hackers are constantly blamed for DoS attacks when they, like many Internet users, are often the victims. We have, for the moment anyway, lost a major forum of communications for the hacker community. It doesn't much matter if this was orchestrated by a bored individual or some sort of government conspiracy - the result is the same. Voices are silenced, communication becomes all the harder, any semblance of community is wiped away. There are those who will view the dismantling of our network as a good thing and it's those people whose interests were served by these attacks - attacks which required no computer skills and had nothing at all to do with hacking. The attacks came over the weekend, around the same time other such attacks were directed at sites like Fox News. They, however, got their connection back and launched a federal investigation. We would have preferred to simply find a technical solution but we weren't given that chance as our provider chose to simply disconnect us instead. Our system was kept afloat entirely through volunteer efforts and the fact of the matter is that we have more pressing things to worry about right now. Whether the IRC network ever comes back is now entirely up to the hacker community's ability to design a network that can work around the efforts of those trying to shut us down. If you want to help, please email irc@2600.com. We're sorry that the net continues to be shaped by malicious morons intent on shutting down all aspects of free speech. http://www.2600.com/news/display.shtml?id=1203 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 05:20:19PM -0700, Earnest Guevera wrote:
If anyone is in a position to assist...
2600 IRC SERVER OFFLINE INDEFINITELY Posted 18 Jun 2002 07:13:36 UTC
As a result of a massive Denial of Service attack of biblical proportions, we no longer have a home for irc.2600.net.
I know if I was smart I would say "who cares", but I'll bite anyways... What do you define as "DoS of biblical proportions" (since I don't recall any reference to packeting from sunday school)? -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 08:28:16PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen mooed:
What do you define as "DoS of biblical proportions" (since I don't recall any reference to packeting from sunday school)?
40 days and 40 nights of packet flooding, of course. -Dave (2600 needs an ark?) -- work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/
A DoS of biblical proportions is replete with locusts and frogs raining through the ethernet ;-) *ducks the thrown objects* On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 05:20:19PM -0700, Earnest Guevera wrote:
If anyone is in a position to assist...
2600 IRC SERVER OFFLINE INDEFINITELY Posted 18 Jun 2002 07:13:36 UTC
As a result of a massive Denial of Service attack of biblical proportions, we no longer have a home for irc.2600.net.
I know if I was smart I would say "who cares", but I'll bite anyways...
What do you define as "DoS of biblical proportions" (since I don't recall any reference to packeting from sunday school)?
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 07:49:01PM -0500, Robert A. Hayden wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 05:20:19PM -0700, Earnest Guevera wrote:
As a result of a massive Denial of Service attack of biblical proportions, we no longer have a home for irc.2600.net.
What do you define as "DoS of biblical proportions" (since I don't recall any reference to packeting from sunday school)?
A DoS of biblical proportions is replete with locusts and frogs raining through the ethernet ;-)
while getting biblical, does "an eye for an eye" come to mind? -- [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying. ]
And God spoke. There shal be packets. And there were packets, these packets were good, mostly. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net> To: "Earnest Guevera" <ecguevera@yahoo.com> Cc: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 5:28 PM Subject: Re: if anyone would like to help...
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 05:20:19PM -0700, Earnest Guevera wrote:
If anyone is in a position to assist...
2600 IRC SERVER OFFLINE INDEFINITELY Posted 18 Jun 2002 07:13:36 UTC
As a result of a massive Denial of Service attack of biblical proportions, we no longer have a home for irc.2600.net.
I know if I was smart I would say "who cares", but I'll bite anyways...
What do you define as "DoS of biblical proportions" (since I don't recall any reference to packeting from sunday school)?
-- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
In the referenced message, Earnest Guevera said:
If anyone is in a position to assist...
2600 IRC SERVER OFFLINE INDEFINITELY Posted 18 Jun 2002 07:13:36 UTC
As a result of a massive Denial of Service attack of biblical proportions, we no longer have a home for irc.2600.net.
Hmm, I wonder if a content hoster might take this up for the sole purpose of evening a traffic ratio to be in-line with certain peering policies. Assuming the DoS was of the usual send overwhelming amounts of traffic at the victim variety.
what kind of traffic did it generate during the DOS? On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Stephen Griffin wrote:
In the referenced message, Earnest Guevera said:
If anyone is in a position to assist...
2600 IRC SERVER OFFLINE INDEFINITELY Posted 18 Jun 2002 07:13:36 UTC
As a result of a massive Denial of Service attack of biblical proportions, we no longer have a home for irc.2600.net.
Hmm, I wonder if a content hoster might take this up for the sole purpose of evening a traffic ratio to be in-line with certain peering policies.
Assuming the DoS was of the usual send overwhelming amounts of traffic at the victim variety.
-- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
SG> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:25:03 -0400 (EDT) SG> From: Stephen Griffin SG> Hmm, I wonder if a content hoster might take this up SG> for the sole purpose of evening a traffic ratio to be in-line SG> with certain peering policies. SG> SG> Assuming the DoS was of the usual send overwhelming amounts SG> of traffic at the victim variety. An IRC channel where the point is to get attacked... interesting. "Guys, you're gonna have to get DOS'ed again before next Tuesday, or we're charging you full-price this month." Eddy -- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.
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Stephen Griffin