[65307] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Increase in traffic to/from DSL subs since August?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Thu Nov 20 16:53:48 2003
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:53:10 -1000 (HST)
From: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20031120212859.B0B277B43@berkshire.research.att.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
: >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...
: 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.
Don't forget the NTFS ADS spam crap. >:-(
scott
