WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever

Wed Oct 23 14:52:05 UTC 2002

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Greg Pendergrass wrote:

> There has been a lot about what did not happen yesterday, but how about some
> details about what did happen? Was it a ping flood, syn-flood, smurf, or
> some combination of types? Were the zombie machines windows, linux, or both?
> Some of the root servers were affected more than others, why? Was it that
> there was more ddos traffic directed at them, or that they had less hardware
> and network resources?

And, calling a recent thread to attention: were the packets from valid
sources or were they spoofed, and if so, what was the source address
distribution like?