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Re: Level3 routing issues?
From: matthew () eeph com (Matthew Kaufman)
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 19:26:49 PST
I've seen various references to this worm firing off and saturating networks worldwide within 1 minute... if *that* isn't scary, I don't know what is. It shows that someone, with the right tools and enough vulnerable servers can take out a good portion of the Internet in seconds. And how can we predict *every* possible issue and block it?
The good news with this worm was that the ports it used had low real utility for inter-provider traffic. Compare and contrast to Code Red, where "block TCP port 80" isn't such a great way to slow down the worm if you have any customers who like to use "the web" A combination of the speed at which this spread and a port nobody wants to block will undoubtedly happen in the future, and be ugly, both. Matthew Kaufman matthew () eeph com (home) mkaufman () dsl net (work)
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- Re: Level3 routing issues?, (continued)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Alex Rubenstein (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? hc (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Blaine Kahle (Jan 25)
- RE: Level3 routing issues? Andrew Staples (Jan 25)
- RE: Level3 routing issues? fingers (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Alex Rubenstein (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Scott Granados (Jan 25)
- RE: Level3 routing issues? Kevin Welch (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? George William Herbert (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Gregory Hicks (Jan 25)
- Re: Level3 routing issues? Matthew Kaufman (Jan 25)