Ok ok, fair enough, but there is something so low-intensity about
zombie spambots that it seems to have gone on for months with people
only noticing the result. That makes it different.
It's also not generally complained about as a DDoS except as a
metaphor (it gets so bad it's LIKE a DDoS when the queues get all
jammed with spam slowing down real mail service), and/or by ISPs who
are privately held because you won't hear a publically-traded company
complain that they're getting the stuffing kicked out of them by
criminals they can't do much about, except in very measured language.
-b
On June 28, 2003 at 01:46 maex-lists-spam-ietf-asrg(_at_)Space(_dot_)Net
(Markus Stumpf) wrote:
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 07:16:30PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
Um, when have you ever seen a DDOS attack with thousands of computers
are spewing packets? Do you have an example?
http://www.caida.org/projects/dns-analysis/oct02dos.xml
DDos against the root DNS servers
http://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=92
SQL/Slammer took down half of Korea and Bank of America
There are a lot more examples...
\Maex
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