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vsp · 03-22-2003, 10:58 AM

Anyone here know anyone using AOL who's NOT having Web access problems right now?

My dad has AOL (despite my frequent pestering), and over the last two days, he's been getting blasted with ICMP Inbound traffic that Norton Firewall is catching. He can still get and send mail and IMs, but the web is one endless wall of DNS errors, even when he's opening an IE browser outside of the AOL software. (Telnet can't get out, either.)

A full virus scan with recent definitions turned up clean. His event log shows a number of blocked SubSeven attempts over the last few months, but hell, I get those too. (At least they're showing up as BLOCKED, though it's not as if Norton would say "SubSeven allowed in" if one leaked through.) The remote addresses on the pings in the event log are all from known AOL proxy blocks (64.12.*.*, 205.188.*.*, 152.163.*.*).

He's talked to a couple of people using AOL who are having similar problems, which started yesterday. I have had zero problems with my work connection or Verizon DSL.

03-22-2003, 10:58 AM	#1
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	AOL DDOS? Anyone here know anyone using AOL who's NOT having Web access problems right now? My dad has AOL (despite my frequent pestering), and over the last two days, he's been getting blasted with ICMP Inbound traffic that Norton Firewall is catching. He can still get and send mail and IMs, but the web is one endless wall of DNS errors, even when he's opening an IE browser outside of the AOL software. (Telnet can't get out, either.) A full virus scan with recent definitions turned up clean. His event log shows a number of blocked SubSeven attempts over the last few months, but hell, I get those too. (At least they're showing up as BLOCKED, though it's not as if Norton would say "SubSeven allowed in" if one leaked through.) The remote addresses on the pings in the event log are all from known AOL proxy blocks (64.12.., 205.188.., 152.163..). He's talked to a couple of people using AOL who are having similar problems, which started yesterday. I have had zero problems with my work connection or Verizon DSL.