Re: Large ISP response to Code Red?

[David Hickman <dhickman () yahoo com>]

As an OpSec engineer, one of the bigger problems is getting the 
downstreams to fix their systems.  About 80% of the time, I have to 
threaten null routing and admining down pvcs in order to get someone 
to fix something.

dhh


At 20:45 -0400 7/30/01, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
> "Jon O ." wrote:
> >  Have these ISPs confirmed they have taken action to prevent
> >  an even worse reinfection phase than the first time and if not
> >  why?
>
> Anything in particular that you have in mind for an SP to do 'to prevent an
> even worse reinfection phase' which is specific to Code Red?  It's probably
> important to remember that there's a distinction to be made here between the
> SP's infrastructure and SP's customers.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
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> Christian Kuhtz <ck () arch bellsouth net> -wk, <ck () gnu org> -hm
> Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S.
> "I speak for myself only."
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