[lug] DOS attack

[D. Stimits]

John Hernandez wrote:
> 
> Seems UUNet is getting hit hard this morning, affecting our Silver
> Springs, MD campus in particular.  Actually, if any of you could provide
> me with reachability info (ping/traceroute) for www.noaa.gov, that would
> be great.  Reply off-list to my e-mail address.  Thanks.

The site is partially reachable as of 11:55 AM today. Minimum ping times
are just over 400 ms, but the majority of pings are taking between 1 and
5 seconds...looks like you *might* be able to get through on a
connection based service if you are lucky.

> 
> "D. Stimits" wrote:
> >
> > My ISP (idcomm.com) was under a DOS attack all day today, I couldn't
> > believe how long it has taken to restore service. Some of the dialup
> > numbers are still unable to function. I'm wondering if anyone else got
> > hit today? I keep hoping to hear about someone getting traced to it, and
> > thrown in jail.
> >
> > D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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