In article <8ffgkvg0j5fv19gt0bencgbvcf70vqpvtv@4ax.com>,
Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:
>On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:43:58 -0500, Nucleon <tcfelker@mtco.com> wrote:
>
>>Since yesterday or before, I can no longer access either sco.com or
>>caldera.com. Across the net, many others are experiencing this, but
>>nobody seems to know why. Does anyone know what's going on?
>
>Sorry, I have not inside information. However doing a bit of testing,
>I find that the www.sco.com server and one of the nameservers are
>down. However, some of the boxes are up. stage.caldera.com is up.
>(I'm too lazy to scan the IP block and see if there are any other
>servers that are up).
>
>Both www.sco.com and www.caldera.com are on some kind of load
>balancing contraption which might be the culprit. Dunno.
I just talked to the VIAWEST NOCC, and the SCO and CALDERA web/FTP sites
are blackholed because some lovely miscreants are DDOS'ing them.

When the attack stops, they'll lift the block
at InterNAP.

LER


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