On 25-01-2003 11:21AM, "Alex Bik" <alex at bit.nl> wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Arien Vijn wrote:
It seems to be no DoS attack.
No DoS attack?
It seems to be a worm with the effect of a DoS attack. So DoS is the result, but it's not really an attack. The huge bandwith consumtion with small packets cause problems at the source rather than at the destination. More or less like code red, but far worse and without a fixed destination address.
I see, thanks for the explanation :-)
There is a thread about this starting at NANOG, see
Yeah I saw those once the phone started to ring this morning. Arien -- Arien Vijn tel: +31 205 141 718 Amsterdam Internet Exchange mobile: +31 651 836 444 http://www.ams-ix.net e-mail: arien.vijn at ams-ix.net