[ale] AOL down caused by Linux broadcast storm?

[Dan Newcombe]

> Heard a rumor here today that AOL was brought down last night due to a
> due to a bogus IP storm causing redirects. Supposably this is being blamed

Wasn't there something in the paper (or in one of the trade rags) this 
last week about a similar problem dropping Panix.com to it's knees. ???

	-Dan 
PS. I'd love to see a visual network display program that would 
actually draw in network "storms" :)

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