DoS attack blamed for Internet outage

FYI...from Wilders Security News -

http://www.prognosisx.com/cgi-bin/cgi-script/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=JanDD%2edb&command=viewone&id=29&op=t
11-27-2003
November 27, 2003
"A denial of service attack on security website Zonelabs has been blamed for major disruption of the Internet over the past couple of days. According to an anonymous NTL employee's posting...the DoS attack was launched from 'someone in Eastern Europe': 'NTL was used as a stepping-stone from which an attack on Zonelabs was launched. BT and Pipex were also affected, although not as badly, it would appear.'...what occurred seems to be the latest in a series of DoS attacks designed to extort 'protection money' from website owners..."

- MY NOTE: 'Barely noticeable here: - http://average.xaffire.com/
(Anyone else know of some sites that do well in monitoring INET performance such as that?)