[55277] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level3 routing issues?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Kapela)
Sun Jan 26 13:02:22 2003
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:10:46 -0600 (CST)
From: Tony Kapela <xam@chalupa.wi2600.org>
To: lamour@UU.NET
Cc: Dave Stewart <dbs@dbscom.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <pb0lm17ommg.fsf@camel.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 26 Jan 2003, Michael Lamoureux wrote:
>
> "dave" == Dave Stewart <dbs@dbscom.com> writes:
>
> dave> I've seen various references to this worm firing off and
> dave> saturating networks worldwide within 1 minute... if *that* isn't
> dave> scary, I don't know what is. It shows that someone, with the
> dave> right tools and enough vulnerable servers can take out a good
> dave> portion of the Internet in seconds. And how can we predict
> dave> *every* possible issue and block it?
>
> Exactly!! This is why the Right Answer (TM) is to get end-users to
> secure their systems and networks so that an attacker can't get a
> critical mass of hosts in 1 minute (or even 1 month). You can only do
Maybe the underlying theme is that, for whatever reasons (market
preassures, business idiocy?), we find ourselves on a network that's
largely a collection of monoculture hosts -- win32 on x86.
--Tk
