[Outages-discussion] National internet outage in Myanmar enters second week

[Jason L. Sparks]

If someone's already posted this I apologize -> http://bit.ly/dz7Cck .
Article from Democratic Voice of Burma, linked from PROLEXIC's site.

Cheers,
Jason

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Frank Bulk <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:

> PTT official says it's DDoS:
>        An official from Myanmar Post and Telecommunication alleged that
> internet
>        services had been affected by distributed denial of service (DDOS)
>        attacks on local servers, which had overloaded the network and
> effectively
>        nixed the net.
>        http://www.mmtimes.com/2010/news/547/news54716.html
>
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of virendra rode
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 3:43 PM
> To: outages-discussion at outages.org
> Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] National internet outage in Myanmar
> enters
> second week
>
> On 11/01/2010 08:34 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 1, 2010, at 6:26 AM, Frank Bulk wrote:
> >> Does anyone else have more information on this?
> >
> > Well, by most accounts they turned it off themselves in 2007, but what
> I've been hearing this time is that it's a 6gbps DDoS which, for them, is
> an
> overwhelming amount.  That's a plausible explanation.  Arbor might have
> some
> additional insight into the matter.
> >
> >                                  -Bill
> ----------------------
> I believe PROLEXIC has jumped to help as well.
>
>
> regards,
> /virendra
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