Re: Level3 routing issues?

[Avleen Vig <lists-nanog () silverwraith com>]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:13:30AM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>       On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>     > > Lots of traffic on udp port 1434 coming in here via TW Telecom and Sprint
>     > > Looks like we may have a winner for DDoS of the year (so far)
>     > What kind of traffic levels are you seeing?
>
> I'm working on it for some friends, and I'm seeing about 900mbits/second
> on a gigabit link coming out of their hosting facility.  Lots and lots of
> Microsoft crap in there, I guess.
> Somebody remind me why Microsoft is still allowed to exist?

Let's not blame MS for admins who don't know how to secure their boxes
:-)
A patch was released mid-2002 and was also part of SQL Server SP3