Does anyone know what steps are being taken to find and stop the perpetrators of these DoS attacks? Is there some flaw they are exploiting in the protocol that makes them pick on IRC rather then some other higher visibility servers? I know Yahoo! had an attack some time ago but it only took a couple of days to stop the attacks. IRC attacks apparently have been going on for over a month now. I assume there are traces being run to track down the perps but how are they able to hide so well? On the other hand I guess if someone publishes that answer it might give rise to more attacks.
I'm not a network security expert but I do find these security problems interesting.
