FYI: traceroute from down under [LWN.net]

FYI: traceroute from down under

Posted Aug 24, 2003 21:53 UTC (Sun) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
Parent article: ESR: Let SCO hang itself

9 137.39.31.190 182.438 ms 179.052 ms 179.155 ms
10 152.63.0.114 176.487 ms 152.63.0.150 179.120 ms 178.973 ms
11 152.63.1.26 218.494 ms 152.63.2.37 200.979 ms 203.032 ms
12 152.63.123.221 226.429 ms 152.63.89.233 218.978 ms 219.149 ms
13 152.63.72.77 218.351 ms 219.054 ms 152.63.72.81 217.111 ms
14 157.130.162.54 210.334 ms 211.010 ms 212.945 ms
15 * * *

This is where it ends. You can also read about this here: http://news.netcraft.com/. It isn't clear at this point that this is a DOS attack. So, unless ESR knows something we don't (I certainly hope he doesn't), it would be better if he didn't come out with things like this.

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Posted Aug 25, 2003 5:14 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

> So, unless ESR knows something we don't (I certainly hope he doesn't), it would be better if he didn't come out with things like this.

Apparently he does know more:

http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003082501026NWCYLL

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Posted Aug 25, 2003 9:42 UTC (Mon) by antonio (guest, #4712) [Link]

I don't think Eric's letter was a good idea. Can you imagine the headlines that SCO and other Open Source opponents can make out of this?
There was no need to establish in public a connection between our community and the DOS attack.

Eric, please think twice before speaking for us (or ask somebody for advice before doing it)

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Posted Aug 25, 2003 11:45 UTC (Mon) by WRatzka (subscriber, #912) [Link]

Sorry, but the link between the DOS attack and the Linux community would have
been made anyway.
So it is important to emphasize, that such actions are not condoned by the
community.

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Posted Aug 25, 2003 16:38 UTC (Mon) by jeff@uclinux.org (guest, #8024) [Link]

Silence is golden... facts speak for themselves. Eric doesn't speak for "the community".

Eric is however a part of "the community" that often speaks.

Jeff.

Eric's source

Posted Aug 25, 2003 15:01 UTC (Mon) by dwalters (guest, #4207) [Link]

With friends like this, who needs enemies!

I trust Eric will do the right thing and co-operate with the authorities in telling them everything he knows about this "associate" of the attacker.