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Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)
ABSTRACT In May 2003, the University of Wisconsin - Madison found that it was the recipient of a continuous large scale flood of inbound Internet traffic destined for one of the campus' public Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers. The flood traffic rate was hundreds-of-thousands of packets-per-second, and hundreds of…
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Networking & InternetSystems & Performance2026
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 2026 | Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) by walrus01 | 109 | 15 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 15 Hacker News comments by 12 different people, from Apr 2013 to Sep 2026.
Most recent:
- walrus01 · Sep 13, 2026
- lxgr · Oct 5, 2023
- kilbuz · Oct 5, 2023
- dsl · Jun 1, 2019
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