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Offline Thorns

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« on: February 08, 2000, 10:07:00 PM »
It must have been "black Tuesday".  I couldn't keep a host connection.  Tried logging on around 8:00pm cst and couldn't keep a host connection.  Sounds like others had the same problem.... and lag was the worse I've ever heard.  Did a tracert looks like a router problem somewhere in the Dallas/Fort Worth area........

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Offline Kieren

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« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2000, 07:29:00 AM »
Yup. Was total washout for me. I could hit anywhere else on the net I wanted, but not Grapevine. I tried bravely to soldier on, but 8 discoes in 30 minutes was too much.  
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« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2000, 07:44:00 AM »
There is a major Denial of Service attack being run on the net right now.  Although I don't think HTC is being targeted directly, there is a ton of traffic on the net as a network of thousands of distributed flood clients are being used to procecute attacks on sites like Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, and many others.  This is a huge amount of traffic being slammed around, so routers and segments all over the net are being affected.

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« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2000, 08:36:00 AM »
hmmm.. cc i had the same problem... took about 5 mns from first signs of yelow to solid red and then disco ... i hate when this happens after a fun fight and a 30 mins RTB just about turning finals .. but i guess i saw a flood coming right in on one of the routers between me and HTC....
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Offline Wrek

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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2000, 09:38:00 AM »
Yea, I had the same problems you guys did.
When I did a trace it seems all my problems started at HTC though. And I'm still having problems this morning. What ever it is I hope it's fixed soon.
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Offline pzvg

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« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2000, 01:02:00 PM »
Been seeing this a lot on the net of late, don't start hollering at HTC, 'cuz it mainly seems to be huge external packet xmits, and yes it does seem like it's being directed against sites, though the why of that escapes me completely. Now in comparison, I was up last night, and my conn was pretty good (usually mine is in the basement)
So go figure, It seems the routers,not the servers, are being hit the most. Take a gander at the Everquest boards if you think we had it bad, sounds like the internet version of a Tac nuke went off over there.

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« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2000, 05:41:00 PM »
Ran Neo Trace after I could not log on and it laughed at me. Traced 10 different IP's 7 were completely Porked...  


And Just think there's some 11 yo in the garage doing this to us.

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Offline Kieren

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« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2000, 05:54:00 PM »
Cleaner-

What's the scoop on the 11 year-old? Is this for real?

Stranger things have happened...  
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« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2000, 07:10:00 PM »
Well I don't know much about routers and such but I got discoed shortly after 6pm pst and the next thing I know my isp is redoin their routers for the next 3 hours.
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« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2000, 08:36:00 PM »
These problems are not just some 11 year old.  These are distributed network attack tools that are installed on hundreds, possibly thousands, of compromised Linux and Sun boxes and then used to hit targets with HUGE ammounts of garbage requests to shut them down.  Reports are that Yahoo was getting a Gigabit PER SECOND in attack traffic.  Ouch.  For more info check out: http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2434548-2,00.html  and http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-01.html

Nasty stuff, and very tough to block.

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« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2000, 08:38:00 PM »
Don't really know if was an 11 yo but probably was. What they did was put a Trojan horse on alot of high bandwith mainframes and had them ping all those ISP at the same time with a request with no follow up IP to reply to. Totally porked the Web Sights they were hitting as well as all the routers that sent there request. Almost shut the whole East Coast down for awhile. Don't know much about football, but them hackers are gonna really piss off the Citizens who in turn are gonna demand that the feds doing something about it. So much for the internet being a place where u can converse without being hounded and watched...  

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