WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever

Wed Oct 23 07:53:59 UTC 2002

i think we would benefit from a traceroute - paul - f to a and j?  paul
may very well be correct - but what if their internetworked with each
other.

paul?

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:35:06 EDT, Jeff S Wheeler <jsw at five-elements.com>  said:
> >
> > performance this seems true.  However, I did notice that several of the
> > servers which are operated by VeriSign were not responding to at least a
> > large, 50% or greater, fraction of test queries.  Even so, VeriSign was
> > good enough to chime in that their root servers were unaffected.
> >
> > Did I mis-perceive this, or is it another bold-faced lie from VeriSign?
>
> If a server that can handle 500K packets/sec is sitting behind a pipe that
> maxes out at 400K packets/sec, it won't be affected when the pipe is flooded.
>
> Most likely, half your packets were being dropped 2 or 3 hops from the
> server (where the DDoS starts converging from multiple sources).  So we
> probably can't pin a "bold-faced lie" on VeriSign this time.  Dissembling
> and misleading perhaps, but not a total lie (unless somebody can prove that
> the pipe still had capacity and wasn't dropping stuff)
>
>