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Re: router worms and International Infrastructure
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:44:13 +0000 (GMT)
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Scott Weeks wrote:
----- Original Message Follows ----- From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com> Subject: Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 02:41:44 +0000 (GMT)On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Gadi Evron wrote:I can, but my name isn't randy bush :) Actually what I was thinking was: ISP's business depends upon their (and others actually) network working properly, for them large scale 'internet killer' outages are not a good thing. TheySubnetwork specific worms? I only want to take down as1, as2 and as3, for example, rather than a large-scale 'internet killer' outage.
Sure, worms that take out enterprises or 'local networks' are alive and well (slammer toasted hundreds of customer networks) Each ISP should (and many do) plan for this sort of event and should be planning how to avoid it as well.
Current thread:
- Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Scott Weeks (Sep 19)
- Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Gadi Evron (Sep 19)
- Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Scott Weeks (Sep 20)
- Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Gadi Evron (Sep 20)
- Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Sep 20)