On Saturday 06 May 2006 15:26, Arun K. Khan wrote:
Way back in spring 2001, Yahoo! was unreachable for about 24+ hours due to a massive Distributed DoS ping attack. Yahoo! put in the effort to block only the illegit requests but many sites decided to drop ICMP echo requests (e.g. www.redhat.com, www.att.com).
lol...isnt that kinda stupid? I mean you can't really guard against a DDoS no matter what the protocol is...