[kiryandil]

Instead, increasingly hackers with one PC can generate a lot of small requests to a target server and bring it down.

129.250.24.19 (mg-1.a00.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net) is the server that hangs in my route to FR.

[Smokin' Joe]

I don't know enough to be able to track choke points in the net.

I'm far from an IT guru, more the equivalent of a shadetree mechanic, and fairly limited at that.

Perhaps others here better versed in the topic can shed more light on the significance of this, and perhaps suggest a defense.

I find it interesting this came out on election day in the states, especially when the week running up to the election FR seemed to be bogged down.

I may have missed the memo on what happened there, (It may have been something else Jim or John got fixed), but I thought this was worthy of note. (Courtesy ping to Jim and John.)