Re: They crashed the Internet!

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:

> Looks like someone was able to crash the Internet.  Or at least a pretty
> big 
chunk of it.  Boat anchors appear to be more potent weapons however than
DDoS software:
>   Internet failure hits two continents
>   http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/dubai.outage/index.html

There's actually pretty good AP background article on this:

http://www.physorg.com/news121022065.html

- - ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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