On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:35:06 EDT, Jeff S Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > performance this seems true. However, I did notice that several of the > servers which are operated by VeriSign were not responding to at least a > large, 50% or greater, fraction of test queries. Even so, VeriSign was > good enough to chime in that their root servers were unaffected. > > Did I mis-perceive this, or is it another bold-faced lie from VeriSign?
If a server that can handle 500K packets/sec is sitting behind a pipe that
maxes out at 400K packets/sec, it won't be affected when the pipe is flooded.
Most likely, half your packets were being dropped 2 or 3 hops from the
server (where the DDoS starts converging from multiple sources). So we
probably can't pin a "bold-faced lie" on VeriSign this time. Dissembling
and misleading perhaps, but not a total lie (unless somebody can prove that
the pipe still had capacity and wasn't dropping stuff)
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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