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Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day
From: Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>
Date: 22 Sep 2006 04:42:58 +0000
jared () puck nether net (Jared Mauch) writes:
I was thinking sql-slammer, massive flood causing signifcant amount of network infrastructure to go down. (people on low speed links with large blocks of address space were DoS'ed off the network).
right.
I don't think of drive-by browser/desktop infection as a networking issue, more of an end-host issue.
given that "network operations" now includes all kinds of non-bgp activities like datacenter design, tcp syn flood protection, nonrandom initial tcp sequence number prediction, and a googolplex or two of other issues, i've assumed that the hardcore bgp engineering community now meets elsewhere. (i wouldn't be needed or welcome "there" if so, so i'm just guessing.) so, for lack of a better forum, "things that can beat the hell out of your abuse desk" does indeed seem like safe fare for nanog@ in 2006, even though in 1996 maybe not so much so. (hell, in 1996 one could still send MIME attachments to abuse desks, since they were generally running solaris on NCD terminals rather than microsoft outlook, and attachments were "just opaque data", grrr.) can we all agree to stop shooting the messenger? every time gadi speaks up here, three or four folks bawl him out for being off-topic. time has proved that (a) gadi's not going to STFU no matter whether he's flamed or isn't, (b) those flaming arrows sticking out of his chest don't seem to injure him at all, (c) the flames completely outweigh gadi's own original posts, and (d) some of the folks lurking here actually tell me that they benefit from gadi's stuff. henceforth if you see a post, a poster, or a thread that you aren't interested in, "just hit delete". it'll save more bandwidth than flaming about it would. -- ISC Training! October 16-20, 2006, in the San Francisco Bay Area, covering topics from DNS to DHCP. Email training () isc org. -- Paul Vixie
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- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day, (continued)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Gadi Evron (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Gadi Evron (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Dave Stewart (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Gadi Evron (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Adrian Chadd (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Gadi Evron (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Payam Tarverdyan Chychi (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Jared Mauch (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day bmanning (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Paul Vixie (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Michael . Dillon (Sep 22)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Sep 22)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Gadi Evron (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Richard A Steenbergen (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Michael . Dillon (Sep 22)
- RE: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Lincoln Dale (Sep 22)
- [Closed-Dead-OT-CloseMe]Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Myke Lyons (Sep 22)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Pete Templin (Sep 22)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Barry Shein (Sep 22)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Joel Jaeggli (Sep 21)
- Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day Gadi Evron (Sep 21)