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Re: Hard data on network impact of the "Code Red" worm?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Jul 31 02:34:11 2001

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To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, ck@arch.bellsouth.net,
	nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:40:48 +0200."
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:40:48 +0200, Hank Nussbacher said:
 
> In this case, IMO, the hype was warranted.  If not for the 2 code errors in 
> Code Red, this worm, using 300K zombies at 50Mb/sec each would have hit the 
> Internet with about 15Tb/sec of aggregate traffic.  The next time, we all 
> won't be so lucky.

Umm.. Urp.

You think all those 300K zombies have 100baseT?

I don';t think any of the 48 victims at our site had it.

-- 
				Valdis Kletnieks
				Operating Systems Analyst
				Virginia Tech


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