He is either getting slammed or DDoS'ed right now, try again later. But you are correct, it is worth reading. -----Original Message----- From: Irony [mailto:irony@trini.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:27 PM To: Firewalls@lists.gnac.net Subject: This is a must read document. It will freak you out - From time to time a "must read" document is published. Steve Gibson, author of ShieldsUp! and one of the gurus of Windows security lived through a major distributed denial of service attack and traced the attackers. He wrote an extremely readable tutorial on it. It's long, and worth every minute. Just one of his many interesting tidbits: Windows 2000 and XP, unlike their predecessors, have enormous capacity to generate malicious Internet traffic with spoofed IP addresses. http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm - [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.] ====DISCLAIMER================= This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify the postmaster@tcbk.com. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. ====END DISCLAIMER============= - [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]