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

["PAOLO YABUT" <dp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe the reason they were down for a long period of time is to get all of
those logs saved and made sure that they have the ip's that caused this
attacks and restrict access to those ip's....but im not sure how they can
restrict access when the attack came from what looks like multiple ip's

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Lewis" <clewis@iquest.net>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?


> 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-----
> > From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On
> > Behalf Of Pike4@ix.netcom.com
> > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 8:52 AM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > 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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