root servers DDoS

Paul Vixie vixie at vix.com
Mon Oct 21 23:07:14 UTC 2002


sean at donelan.com (Sean Donelan) writes:

> Best guess, its a smurf attack. Networks which still have ip
> directed-broadcast (or your vendor's equivalent) enabled on interfaces.
> 
> Its still amazing how much traffic it can generate.

however, this attack was icmp request, not icmp reply.
-- 
Paul Vixie



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