SDF Punted, Due to DDOS

Posted by Hemos on Saturday February 1, 2003 @01:59AM from the kicking-them-offline dept.

bullshizzle writes "The longest running Public Access UNIX System (SDF, running BSD) est. 1989 had their services terminated abruptly by NWLink because of a DDoS attack. Termination was carried out immediately without prior notification, which violates their contract (page1, page2). Complaints can be filed to the Washington State Attorney General's Office by filling out this simple form conveniently located online. You can follow the story at lonestar.org." While still bad, I've been corrected - SDF was *not* the longest running public access Unix - ArborNet (Located right here in my town) has been around for at least a number more years.

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BSD is dying! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-01 02:08 · Score: -1, Troll

It seems to me that BSD is dying!
I don't understand this. by Krapangor · 2003-02-01 02:14 · Score: -1, Troll

*BSD supporters always claim that their system is more reliable, stable, secure and handles load better than Linux/ Windows XP.
But if this is true then any *BSD server should be immune to such hacker DOS attacks.
So why had the system to be shut down by the ISP ?

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