If someone wanted to "take down" UUNET's (or any other provider that uses a lot of Ascend Max's) dial-up network, I wonder if it would really be that easy. Any one volunteering to try? Those 3l33t d00ds on IRC are sure to try eventually. There are a LOT of Black Hats out there. Both MCSNet and ANet-Chi (two fairly large midwestern ISP's) were taken out for several hours within the past two weeks. Both have at least 2 T-3's to different backbone providers. EVERY DAY ISP's, both large and small suffer Denial of Service Attacks that cripple thier networks. These attacks cost ISP's a lot of money. They piss off customers, require staff to come into the NOC, degrade service, and take a lot of people's time. -- Eric Wieling (eric@ccti.net), Corporate Communications Technology Sales: 504-585-7303 (sales@ccti.net), Support: 504-525-5449 (support@ccti.net) ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request@bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <<A HREF="http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq">http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq</A>> </PRE> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <STRONG>Follow-Ups</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg09618.html">Re: (ASCEND) Feature Requests and Ascend?</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com></LI> </UL> </UL> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <STRONG>References</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg09597.html">Re: (ASCEND) Feature Requests and Ascend?</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: Tim Basher <basher@alpha.CES.CWRU.Edu></LI> </UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg09599.html">Re: (ASCEND) Feature Requests and Ascend?</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com></LI> </UL> </UL> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <HR> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg09613.html">Re: (ASCEND) Q. P75: Spoofing and Routing Voice to just one POT</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg09611.html">(ASCEND) Downed modem cards</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg09599.html">Re: (ASCEND) Feature Requests and Ascend?</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg09618.html">Re: (ASCEND) Feature Requests and Ascend?</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="mail17.html#09612"><STRONG>Main</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thrd198.html#09612"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> </BODY> </HTML>