On Oct 3, 2011, at 7:25 PM, Nate Itkin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:14:03PM +0000, Michael J McCafferty wrote: >> Our session with them is up and down at Any2 at OWB. >> >> ------Original Message------ >> From: Aiden Sullivan >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: he.net down? >> Sent: Oct 3, 2011 3:35 PM >> >> www.he.net seems to be down on both IPv4 and IPv6 -- does anyone know what is >> going on? >> -- >> Aiden >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > > Blaming DDOS. http://status.linode.com > > "The incident was a probable DDOS attack, but its behavior was unusual and > difficult to identify. Our network engineers made some adjustments to the DOS > countermeasures acquired after last week's incident, and that seems to have > stabilized traffic flow. We apologize for the inconvenience. -Ben Larsen > Hurricane Electric Internet Services" > > Some supporting evidence would be nice.
Exactly what do you expect a network which is attacked to post to NANOG, or a random web page, to "prove" they were attacked? Given the 1000s of network outages over the last decade, I can think of maybe a handful that supplied "supporting evidence". As I said before, Mike & the gang at HE are stand-up people. If they said it was a DoS, it was a DoS - although I note they did not say it was a DoS, just probably a DoS. But I extend my faith if their lack of prevarication to even statement as well. In fact, it speaks well that they are being equivocal until they are certain themselves. -- TTFN, patrick
