DoS! April Fools!
by meltphace on Apr.02, 2008, under networking, security
So for those of you who may have had strange Cox outage issues in the HR area this fine Wednesday (04/02/08) morning, I have some good news. I think I know what was going on. At about 9:30 it would appear my network at work was on the painful end of a DoS attack from somewhere on the internet. At the peak we were getting about 40,000 packets/sec through one provider and 70,000 through the other, bringing our router to it’s knees (normal load for us is about 3000/sec). It would appear that this attack caused some pretty major problems for Cox as well. It just stopped all on it’s own at about 11:00 and neither provider has any reliable information about where it came from. It was still Apr 1 in China at 9:00 AM right?
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