Re: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

Curious as to if it IS hard to prevent (NO offense intended) because I have 
heard
several folks from security companies saying that there was NO WAY Yahoo should
have been down for 3 1/2 hours or whatever it was and that those folks that had
gotten hit by the DoS were asking for it because they had spent all of their 
time
on everything BUT good security for things like this. These folks either didn't
elaborate or what they said wasn't repeated so I wasn't sure on this (?)

Thanks !

Chuck

Bob Crothers wrote:

> Without a doubt.
>
> The insidious thing about a DOS attack is that the hacker is doing exactly
> what the site wants. generating traffic.  What makes it bad is that the
> hacker is generating way more traffic (and useless traffic) then the site
> can handle.  Makes it very hard to prevent.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Pike4@ix.netcom.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 8:52 AM
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> Subject: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?
>
> During the recent outrages at Yahoo and the others, by hackers who as I
> understand it, overload the web servers, with excessive email, I was
> wondering if this could happen to an AS/400 web server?
>
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