Hmm... sounds... umh... "interesting". And certainly something that others could benefit from knowing the details of, at an appropriate time. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/Jan01/01-25WebSitePR.asp says: Statement by Microsoft on Web Site Availability REDMOND, Wash. -- Jan. 25, 2001 -- During the morning of Jan. 25, Microsoft was the target of a denial of service attack against the routers that direct traffic to the company's Web sites. As a result, access to some of the Microsoft Internet properties, including Microsoft.com and MSN.com, was intermittent for many customers throughout this morning. Microsoft's global networking team quickly determined that today's issue was completely separate from yesterday's outage, and has taken a number of steps to address the issue. Currently, all sites are available to customers. This type of denial of service attack is not related to any Microsoft product. Such an attack is an attempt to interfere with the routers in one of Microsoft's Internet data centers. Microsoft's servers were running normally throughout the event, but the attack prevented access to some of the company's Web sites. It is unfortunate that an individual or group of individuals would engage in this kind of illegal activity. Microsoft has made the FBI aware of this situation, and has taken immediate steps to ensure our customers can gain access to our Web sites. These steps will also make sure that our networks have improved protection from this type of attack. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused customers, and want to assure our customers that we will be taking more steps in the days and weeks ahead to further protect them and continue to provide a great Web experience.
On 1/25/01, Marc Slemko wrote:
Hmm... sounds... umh... "interesting". And certainly something that others could benefit from knowing the details of, at an appropriate time.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/Jan01/01-25WebSitePR.asp says:
<snip> Ya know, I wonder if this really was a DoS attack or just an overwhelming ammount of traffic from people trying to regain access to the MS sites. That plus all of the car wreck lookie lous who tried to access M$ sites as soon as the outage was announced. It would be interesting to see some numbers.... -- BillT@Mahagonny.com | PGP KeyID#: 0xFB966670 -By the year 2019, one third of the worlds population will be Elvis impersonators.
Ya know, I wonder if this really was a DoS attack or just an overwhelming ammount of traffic from people trying to regain access to the MS sites. That plus all of the car wreck lookie lous who tried to access M$ sites as soon as the outage was announced. It would be interesting to see some numbers....
As one press report mentioned, Billy ships his sw to default to hitting their site at startup...so that when you break that, lots-a-users are stalled dead.. Wonder if that's a factor... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
ah yes, kinda like in daze past when netscape had issued, and people would call in saying the net is down cuz home.netscape.com didn't work.. Bri On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, David Lesher wrote:
Ya know, I wonder if this really was a DoS attack or just an overwhelming ammount of traffic from people trying to regain access to the MS sites. That plus all of the car wreck lookie lous who tried to access M$ sites as soon as the outage was announced. It would be interesting to see some numbers....
As one press report mentioned, Billy ships his sw to default to hitting their site at startup...so that when you break that, lots-a-users are stalled dead..
Wonder if that's a factor...
-- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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