SCO press release on DDOS attack [LWN.net]

SCO press release on DDOS attack

Posted Dec 10, 2003 21:08 UTC (Wed) by chill633 (guest, #16013)
Parent article: SCO press release on DDOS attack

Does SCO host its own servers? Is it SCO that is under attack, or the
hosting provider?

I've had a couple of sites I host taken offline by DDOS attacks, but they
weren't against me, they were against my co-lo facility. The whole
netblock was under attack.

It could be coincidence. Does anyone have any ideas how many small DDOS
attacks go on daily? By small, I mean affecting a small number of IPs.

-Charles Hill

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SCO press release on DDOS attack

Posted Dec 10, 2003 21:27 UTC (Wed) by stef70 (guest, #14813) [Link]

My web site was down several times during the last month!
Hemmmm! No! wait! that was just because my hosting
company sucks!

SCO press release on DDOS attack

Posted Dec 11, 2003 18:54 UTC (Thu) by gleef (guest, #1004) [Link]

No, SCO doesn't host it's own web servers. There's three likely companies that might be hosting them (different evidence points to different companies). XO, Center7 and Noorda Family Trust. Center7 is a Canopy company like SCO. NFT is, of course, also closely connected with the Canopy Group.

For what it's worth, at the time of the alleged attack, packets to www.sco.com(216.250.128.12) were being routed to XO and stopped. Packets to ftp.sco.com(216.250.128.13) were passing through XO. XO was contacted directly and reported having no problems.

Also, for what it's worth, while the FTP server was up for hours during the "attack", it appears to be down now.