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Firm Is Accused of Sending Spam, and Fight Jams Internet

A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around the world.......


Unless it's for US view only.....I never thought of that. Try going through a US proxy.
http://www.proxy4free.com/
 
fonz said:
This requires a login. Can you post a brief summary of what it says?
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Cliffnotes:

Spammer-friendly ISP located in hardened bunker generates 300 gigabit D.O.S. on spamhaus.org servers after finding itself on the blocklist.
 
Use of spamhaus services is your decision and if you set up your systems in such a way that they go down when spamhaus services are not available you're the one to blame.
 
kpa said:
Use of spamhaus services is your decision and if you set up your systems in such a way that they go down when spamhaus services are not available you're the one to blame.
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The problem is, that this particular DoS uss DNS, fakes thousands of DNS requests to Spamhaus.. from other users.. Which then causes Spamhaus to send info BACK to those people.. slowing down traffic in the process.

It's not so much that these servers are "relying" on Spamhaus, it's that the traffic is overwhelming major backbone servers, and slowing down things for people who connect off those.
 
However, it's slightly overblown. Only certain connections are being overwhelmed. NOT the entire internet, as previously claimed.
 
break19 said:
The problem is, that this particular DoS uss DNS, fakes thousands of DNS requests to Spamhaus.. from other users.. Which then causes Spamhaus to send info BACK to those people.. slowing down traffic in the process.

It's not so much that these servers are "relying" on Spamhaus, it's that the traffic is overwhelming major backbone servers, and slowing down things for people who connect off those.
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Everything I've read on the topic states that a bunch of open recursing DNS servers were queried with fake source addresses, making those servers send (large) replies to the intended victim. As Cloudflare didn't go down, they started hitting Cloudflares individual upstream providers instead.

I believe this method is also called DRDoS (Distributed Redirected Denial of Service), and I remember reading an article about it over at grc.com several years ago, although I can't find it now.
 
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