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Re: Local servers used in attack on Whitehouse.

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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 14:54
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In article <9d6bit$ooh$1@caerulus.cerintha.com>,
Michael Scheidell <scheidell@fdma.com> wrote:
>Ah, if the isp's only took the mynetwatchman.com alerts more seriously!

We took them quite seriously.  But there's not much you can do to prevent a
DoS attack, all you can do is wait for it to happen and then try to filter
it.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
Genuity, Burlington, MA
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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
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Subject: Re: Local servers used in attack on Whitehouse.
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