SYN flood atacks?

Tue Aug 17 19:11:43 UTC 2004

One of my peers had a DOS against one of their colo customers.

Effected their/our connection to Level 3.  Appx 11:05am EDT

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Matt Taber                 tabes at wmis.net
WMIS Internet         http://www.wmis.net
"Accelerate ... It's a Speed Thing"
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jgraun at comcast.net wrote:
> 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
> 
>     -------------- Original message --------------
> 
>      >
>      >
>      > 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.
>      >
>      > 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.
>      >
>      > 