Sobig.f surprise attack today

Thu Aug 28 20:47:12 UTC 2003

Damian Gerow wrote:

> Or potentially an artifact of wanting more IP space from ARIN, as 
> opposed to
>
>assigning a static IP to every user we have, even the ones that are only
>connected for about an hour a month.  But hey, that's just a minor detail.
>  
>
Sorry for momentarily phasing to our local la-la-land where the address 
space used by always-on
connections has passed the dialup ones a few years ago. Dialup users 
also cannot generate any
significant DDoS traffic even if combined by a factor of 10000.

Pete