[40003] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hard data on network impact of the "Code Red" worm?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (up@3.am)
Tue Jul 31 09:21:33 2001
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:20:55 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 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.
The only two here that I know of where on 56k dialups...with about
26.4kbps worth of outbound each.
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up@3.am http://3.am
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