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From: Martin Hannigan (no email)
Date: Wed May 03 2006 - 01:28:03 EDT
At 10:11 PM 5/2/2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 06:40:43PM -0700, Tim Pozar wrote:
> > UL is seeing a large DDOS coming towards a couple of customers of ours.
> > I know that other ISPs have been affected as well. I will let them
> > identify them selves.
> >
> > Anyone have any scoop on this?
>
>A) I don't think anyone knows who UL is by that reference alone (I assume
> you mean united layer).
>
>B) The DoS target is Livejournal.
>
>C) As an upstream of an upstream of LJ I'm barely seeing 150Mbps or so of
> it. No indications of exactly how big it is by the time it hits them,
> but at least from my perspective it doesn't seem like a huge attack.
>
>Hope it stops soon though, a sustained livejournal outage is probably
>grounds for at least 4-5 suicides by distraught teenagers who can't blog
>about their day. :)
Add in the Blue Security DDOS. NSP-SEC must be busy defending DDoS'ers tonight
keeping them from helping people defend LiveJournal.
Uh. Who let the Frog out?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,70798-0.html?tw=rss.technology
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Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663
Renesys Corporation (w) 617-395-8574
Member of Technical Staff Network Operations
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