[25855] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: History question, Morris worm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Nov 21 20:08:54 1999
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 17:07:18 -0800
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>> and what's more fun, when they come back up on jan 3 or whatever, they
>> will have whatever y2k problems then.
> I recall after the Morris worm hit the Internet, reading a report sites
> which unplugged their ARPANET connection were down longer than sites which
> remain connected and got repair information over the net.
discussing this issue with a friend whose less than clueful site admins are
taking the whole institution down for the weekend. your explanation that
they would just prefer to deal with it monday during 9-5 makes sense. but
that means that those of us who feel responsible may have to deal with it
for three days while the <bleep>s bring their sites back online one by one.
randy
