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Re: Code Red : Any whitehouse.gov people around?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sabri Berisha)
Fri Jul 20 08:52:27 2001

Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:52:35 +0200 (CEST)
From: Sabri Berisha <sabri@bit.nl>
To: Jasper Wallace <jasper@ivision.co.uk>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jasper Wallace wrote:

> According to a recent post on bugtraq the worm is going to switch from
> infecting webservers to DDOS'ing whitehouse.gov in about 1/2 an hour or so.

Knowing that some of the colocated boxes in our network *might* be
infected; I have placed a nullroute for 198.137.240.92 (the IP
www.whitehouse.gov resolves to).

Just a thought.

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