Powerful Attack Cripples Internet

Fox News ^ | 10.23.02

[Enemy Of The State]

WASHINGTON

[Lucas1]

Interesting...it would be wild if someone could (which apparently they can) bring down the internet. I guess that might get peoples attention. Would mine!

[Enemy Of The State]

Didn't notice? The origin of the attack was not known?

I noticed and as far as being unknown...well, the US wouldn't want to point the finger with the Chinese President in route to the Crawford Ranch now would they?

I propose that we drop the big DOS bomb on China...anyone up for some fun?

[Mitchell]

Interesting in light of everything else going on in recent weeks.

Maybe it's related, maybe it's not.

[Enemy Of The State]

They cant bring down the entire internet...dont forget who invented it..and no, Im not talking about AL Gore. The internet was designed by the DOD and just because they dont have all the newly evolving holes covered doesnt mean they dont have the situation under control.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

Where is Al Gore when you need him?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Where is Al Gore when you need him?

OH hes under the bed with his arse in the air as usual

[Squantos]

fyi

[chnsmok]

I thought it my download of the 200+MB download of the Army game (which is cool) on a really crappy dial-up connection that did it.

[Nick Danger]

Who's the bozo that came up with the headline about "crippling the Internet" when the story says most users didn't even notice? Is that the Associated Press? Fox News?

Reuters headlined their story, "Bid to Cripple Internet Fails, Experts Say."

[Enemy Of The State]

Nicely put! Hadn't read reuters...just Fox.

I noticed because I have the majority of Subnet IPs from China blocked out of my firewall and it was going off the hook the other day.

[Lucas1]

I noticed the slow down. I am wondering though...you mentioned that they can't bring down the entire net. Why is that?

[Enemy Of The State]

im on the way to bed right now and thats a kinda short but kinda long answer so Ill get back to you unless someone else picks up the tab.

[Delta 21]

The internet is like a big spiders web. If one leg goes down the traffic can be routed a different way and still reach its destination. Plus its fairly redundant with numerous backups and is fairly redundant with numerous backups.

[Steely Tom]

Plus its fairly redundant with numerous backups and is fairly redundant with numerous backups.

The internet or this sentence?

(steely)

[PoorMuttly]

"Bid to Cripple Internet Fails, Bert Says."

[zook]

I think they are terribly wrong about this attack not harming anything. I'm in Taiwan, and it was clear that something fouled up our internet access. Today is the first day in about a week that I've been able to get reasonable access to most western web sites. Something rotten going on out there.

[The Person]

Was this the time when FR took 15 minutes to load a page a day or two ago?

[Jeff Chandler]

because they dont have all the newly evolving holes covered doesnt mean they dont have the situation under control.

They CAN'T cover those holes; it was a denial of service attack brought about through packeting. There is no way to defend against such an attack. All they can do is get the servers back up and running again as fast as possible, and track down the rat b*$t**d who took them down.