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Technology Stocks : Frank Coluccio Technology Forum - ASAP
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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1090)2/7/2000 10:07:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio  Read Replies (2) of 1782
 
Denial of Service: Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine - Yahoo!

All day long I've been viewing chatter on the NANOG List and elsewhere concerning the Yahoo! outage which lasted several hours. Late this evening a post on NANOG stated that there now seems to be consensus that the problem stemmed from a targeted attack specifically against the portal. Some of the traceroutes in the messages I viewed were suggesting something along these lines, too. Traces appeared to be fine for all points transiting and terminating at the GC node, except for Yahoo!'s.

A snippet from an ISP's message containing the traceroutes, prior to coming to the conclusion that it was a DOS attack:

"Yahoo seems to be down by itself, but GC (<delete>) was majorly
hosed for a couple of hours today, at least when seen from UUnet. This
has cleared up since. The way it looked, they must have lost a larger
circuit and traffic was falling back onto something smaller. I certainly heard about it from customers today."

See the article that was cited in the later message which I mentioned above, that was published over wired.com's site:

wired.com

I don't know whether these assessments are entirely true, or if they contain a healthy dose of cyber spin. I'm simply passing along what I read from sources that appear to be credible.
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I've been meaning to get a discussion going here on Internet security for a while now. Maybe this is a good launch point.
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