[40291] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: TCP session disconnection caused by Code Red?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike harrison)
Mon Aug 6 14:31:56 2001
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:29:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: mike harrison <meuon@highertech.net>
To: Blaz Zupan <blaz@amis.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> For the last few days, our network seems to be basically unreachable from the
> outside. Most incoming TCP sessions (web requests, incoming mail, telnet
> sessions, etc.) often fail with a simple "Connection refused" like nobody is
Your routers are brain dead from the load.. routers that are used to
handling a few thousand connections are being asked to handle 10's of
thousands. 1 good 1000+ address scan from an ISDN user kills my
Lucent/Ascend TNT unless we filter for it.
