FYI...

- http://www.dslreports.com/
Wed Mar 19 04:05:17 EDT 2008
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Valued users:
unfortunately we have a DDOS (distributed denial of service attack) currently aimed at our pages, rather than give you page timeouts and errors I've decided to show this page so I have some time to work around the problem (eta uncertain)..."
Wed Mar 19 06:16:06 EDT 2008

addendum: ok it is a DDOS (distributed denial of
service attack) aimed at our pages.

If a forensic engineer would be interested in the
partial list of IPs that comprise this botnet
please check out this page:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dpbj3qz_10s6p5z4dn

'Just that fast... now OK here:

- http://www.dslreports.com/overview?v=p

FYI...

- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/19/dslreports_under_ddos_attack/
19 March 2008 - "DSL Reports, a website for broadband users, popped back online after being taken down by a distributed denial of service attack. At least 1,100 bot-infested machines took part in the assault, which at one point directed nearly 48MBps of malicious data at the site. The flood continues, although changes to the site's front-end server drastically improved its defenses. Several hours after the attack began, the DDoS was throwing about 12MBps of data at the site, enough for it to stay online... According to researcher Jose Nazario at Arbor Networks, the command and control center of the attacking botnet appears to be located at IP address 79.135.166.122. He is encouraging ISPs to block port 80 traffic to that server, which he says is "a busy DDoS net which has attacked numerous sites around the world..."
* http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20189090-Todays-DDOS-site-down

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