On Saturday 06 May 2006 15:26, Arun K. Khan wrote: > Way back in spring 2001, Yahoo! was unreachable for about 24+ hours > due to a massive Distributed DoS ping attack. Yahoo! put in the > effort to block only the illegit requests but many sites decided to > drop ICMP echo requests (e.g. www.redhat.com, www.att.com).
lol...isnt that kinda stupid? I mean you can't really guard against a DDoS no matter what the protocol is... -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

