SYN flood atacks?

Tue Aug 17 18:48:22 UTC 2004

Sorry I didnt take the smart ass factor into account when I posted.  I have heard that AOL and other mega proxies have been sending enough SYN floods (DDoS style) to knock over Discover and Allstate.  I am not talking about small amounts of normal traffic.
Jason

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> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 jgraun at comcast.net wrote: 
> > I have been hearing rumors about some SYN flood atacks on the Internet 
> > today. Anybody hear anything? 
> 
> You will need to be more specific. 
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> There are syn flood attacks, icmp attacks, udp attacks, tcp attacks, dns 
> attacks, http attacks, im attacks, ipsec attacks, etc going on every day, 
> all day. 
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