Klarinet Archive - Posting 000906.txt from 1998/10

From: pollyg@-----. Gulakowski)
Subj: Re: [kl] kl] Router under attack
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:29:39 -0400

P: precursor to Y2K? <];o)

On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 17:05:32 EDT LeliaLoban@-----.com writes:
>Mark Charette wrote:
>> The router at AGIS (our backbone Internet supplier) has been under a
>concerted attack both yesterday and today....>
>
>Terri Oda commented,
>>>On top of your router being under attack, it seems a lot of things
>were down
>yesterday. One of the people I was talking to said that part of the
>Canadian
>backbone between Ottawa and Toronto went down. (and since I was having
>a
>horrible time communicating with some friends in TO, I'm inclined to
>believe
>it).>>
>
>This past Saturday, someone spoofed AOL, according to an article in
>the
>_Washington Post_ Sunday (or Monday?) "Business" section. This was a
>deliberate, malicious hack attack that caused a vast amount of e-mail
>(including some of mine, including #607 of this list) to get
>misdelivered.
>AOL says everything should arrive where it belongs eventually, but my
>e-mail
>that disappeared never has reappeared. An e-pal of mine at Hawaii
>Pacific
>University had trouble with his server a few days earlier. An e-mail
>I sent
>him on Oct. 14 never arrived. It turns out that the inability to
>connect with
>Roger Garrett over the last few days was due to his server crashing
>over the
>weekend. Any evidence that all these problems might be connected?
>
>Lelia
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>"There is nothing that makes a man suspect much, more than to know
>little."
> --Francis Bacon, essay, "Of Suspicion"
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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