[65305] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Increase in traffic to/from DSL subs since August?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Thu Nov 20 16:40:21 2003
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:43:57 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <20031120212859.B0B277B43@berkshire.research.att.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 04:28 PM 20/11/2003, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>At the IETF Plenary, Bernard Aboba showed a graph of spam, with a
>marked uptick since SoBig.F in August. My guess is worm-deposited spam
>relays, though Joel's guess of Nachi or Welchia can't be ruled out,
>either, without flow data.
I would say all of the above, plus the normal "back from summer holidays,
weather is getting worse, lets go on-line instead" phenomena, and "there is
now more to do online including cool higher bandwidth net content" all add
to higher usage. But I would certainly say worm traffic is a big one.
---Mike
