Re: getting to the point with DDoS

[thomas () 88 NET (thomas lakofski)]

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Ryan Russell wrote:

> I don't get the implication... You're getting echo replies from the DNS
> root servers.. and I assume you didn't send the appropriate echo requests.

they're requests (iplog logs these as 'echo').  the implication is that
ddos attacks might be more effective if aimed at root nameservers instead
of say, yahoo and ebay.  that's all.

-tl

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