Hans liet ons weten dat vrijwel alle servers van EFNet sinds gisterenavond doelwit zijn van een heftige Distributed Denial of Service attack. EFNet ('Eris Free Network') werd in 1990 opgericht en is het eerste én grootste IRC netwerk van het internet. De achterliggende reden van de aanval is onduidelijk, hoewel sommigen al suggeren dat hier sprake moet zijn van vakantie vierende k1ddies met een overdaad aan vrije tijd. Op dit moment is de situatie dermate ernstig dat het EFNet IRC netwerk zo goed als plat is. Vrijwel alle servers worden aangevallen en het netwerk is volledig in stukken ge-netsplit. Een aantal server eigenaren en instanties hebben zelfs besloten permanent ofwel tijdelijk hun diensten te staken. Inmiddels zijn zes servers gesneuveld, waarvan er één niet meer in het netwerk zal terugkeren. Onderstaand een paar quotes van de EFNet nieuws pagina:
Madmax @ 2001/07/11 21.16 irc.ins.net.uk / dianora: Just incase the rumours are true and somebody's attacked all the servers dianora opers on, can I point out that Diane hasnt been opered on irc.ins.net.uk for about a week... If you're going to DOS servers because you dont like their opers, at least /stats o first ;P
Hardy @ 2001/07/11 16.05 ircd.solidstreaming.net / irc.solidstreaming.net: SolidStreaming's irc client and hub servers have been null routed at the moment due to a massive core router flood. Currently, there is no ETA for return.
Madmax @ 2001/07/11 12.44 irc.ins.net.uk / irc.hub.uk: C&W INS has been under such a large attack that they have now null routed the irc servers. We do not know at this stage if or when they'll be returning.
Madmax @ 2001/07/11 09.31 Efnet's broken: You heard it here first. To those concerned, quit with the attacks, learn not to shit where you sleep. You know who you are.
Madmax @ 2001/07/11 09.25 irc.lightning.net: Lightning is disconnecting from efnet for the immediate future due to DOS attacks. They will look at the situation again as soon as possible and hopefully make a comeback.
Hardy @ 2001/07/10 21.49 irc.emory.edu: irc.emory.edu has officially de-linked from EFNet as of today due to excessive Denial of Service Attacks for unknown (but most likely IRC-Related) reasons. It's a great loss for the EFNet community as Emory University's IRC server has for 5 years been a very stable, reliable, and open one. We would like to thank the irc.emory.edu staff for their time and dedication to EFNet, you will be missed. [break] Op IRCHelp.org werd het volgende bericht geplaatst: [/break] On the evening of July 10, a series of denial of service attacks began, which have crippled most EFnet servers, including most of the servers which permit users from the United States. Users can expect near total unavailability of all EFnet servers for an indefinite period of time. Don't ask us how to restore ops, or if/when things will be fixed - we don't know either. When we find out more, we'll let you know.