[55130] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level3 routing issues?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avleen Vig)
Sat Jan 25 12:09:59 2003
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 08:40:53 -0800
From: Avleen Vig <lists-nanog@silverwraith.com>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301250111510.20558-100000@paixhost.pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:13:30AM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> > > Lots of traffic on udp port 1434 coming in here via TW Telecom and Sprint
> > > Looks like we may have a winner for DDoS of the year (so far)
> > What kind of traffic levels are you seeing?
>
> I'm working on it for some friends, and I'm seeing about 900mbits/second
> on a gigabit link coming out of their hosting facility. Lots and lots of
> Microsoft crap in there, I guess.
> Somebody remind me why Microsoft is still allowed to exist?
Let's not blame MS for admins who don't know how to secure their boxes
:-)
A patch was released mid-2002 and was also part of SQL Server SP3
