Re: SYN flood atacks?

[jgraun () comcast net]

Sorry I didnt take the smart ass factor into account when I posted.  I have heard that AOL and other mega proxies have 
been sending enough SYN floods (DDoS style) to knock over Discover and Allstate.  I am not talking about small amounts 
of normal traffic.
Jason

-------------- Original message -------------- 

> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 jgraun () comcast net wrote: 
> > I have been hearing rumors about some SYN flood atacks on the Internet 
> > today. Anybody hear anything? 
>
> You will need to be more specific. 
>
> There are syn flood attacks, icmp attacks, udp attacks, tcp attacks, dns 
> attacks, http attacks, im attacks, ipsec attacks, etc going on every day, 
> all day.