[65303] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Increase in traffic to/from DSL subs since August?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nipper, Arnold)
Thu Nov 20 16:22:54 2003
From: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold@nipper.de>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>, "Jared B. Reimer" <jared@theriver.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:22:17 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thursday, November 20, 2003 10:00 PM, Jared B. Reimer
<jared@theriver.com>
wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Another independent ISP operator and I have noticed a pretty significant
> increase in traffic to and from our broadband (DSL) subscribers since
> August. It's been a fairly steady uptick, at least in my case, resulting
> in a doubling of overall average traffic to/from these folks since then.
>
> Have others seen a similar trend? Any thoughts as to what the cause may
> be? Our best guess a virus/worm, possibly being used as a spam relay or
> other proxy at this point...
>
Traffic at LINX and AMS-IX started to grow again in Juli/August as well
after having slowed down for months. At DE-CIX we see also a bis increase in
traffic since August. No idea what this is. IMHO it's to much traffic for
being virus/worm.
Arnold
