Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever

[Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>]

* randy () psg com (Randy Bush) [Wed 23 Oct 2002, 00:54 CEST]:
> when uunet or at&t takes many customers out for many hours, it's not
> a problem
>
> when an attack happens that was generally not even perceived by the
> users, it's a major disaster

The BBC website has an article with rather more nuance than some other
online news outlets appear to have.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2352667.stm
| "As best we can tell, no user noticed and the attack was dealt with
| and life goes on," said Louis Touton, vice president for the Internet
| Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the running
| of the root servers and the net's addressing system.

The article calls it a "failed attack" and features a picture of a few
big sea waves.  It also features a link to an article named "Fighting
zombie machines" - this also says something good about the clue level
at BBC News, I think.

Regards,


        -- Niels.