great story of a DOS – Revision3

revision3 DOS

There are a couple of things I like or would like to note about this story.

1.  They include the packet capture.

2.  I think the FBI is going to have some fun with this one.  If I caused all that damage by accident I would be in trouble.

3.  Not sure I can swallow the “our servers are just trying to connect back” story.  If they were would the times not double each time?  2000 servers, connect every 3 mins would be an average of 11 hits per second, not 8000.

4.  Looks like they had 2 different data centers hitting in this attack.  Usually that would be for fail over not full production load.  Unless they got two different IP blocks that far apart.

5.  Love the analogy of a DOS.  My Dad could understand that one.

6.  I want a 9 Gbps wan connection.

~ by huntingpackets on May 30, 2008.