[72875] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Convention networks and viruses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Thu Jul 29 10:48:42 2004
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 04:45:50 -1000 (HST)
From: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <410905A7.30001@cox.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
: > : As NANOG has experienced during the last several meetings, in any network
: > : used by a large number of people, there will be a certain percentage of
: > : people which bring infected computers into the network.
: > : evening the main press pavilion was offline for about 90 minutes. A
: > : spokesman for Verizon said the company deliberately caused the
: > : interruption as part of an effort to root out a more deep-seated
: > : network problem, which the company said appeared to have been caused by
: > : a virus carried by network devices provided by news organizations. In
: > A buncha technically clueless newsgeeks brought infected micro$loth
: > computers into a convention? Shocking! What's this world coming to???
: > Sounds like Verizon hired low-end netgeeks if they had to bring the
: > network down to find these infected computers.
:
: I must have dozed off. What did Verizon have to do with the NANOG
: meeting?
See section 2, above. Neither is what Sean was getting at, I believe.
What he seemed to be saying is that a few infected folks can cause temp
networks at conventions to suffer major problems. Doesn't matter if it's
at a news org conference or a NANOG conference. To be sure, though, you
don't have to take the whole network down to find them.
: > tisk-tisk-tisk Verizon. MCSE != good netgeek In fact, almost all the
: > time, the two are mutually exclusive, disjoint sets of people...
:
: And sometimes "orthogonal" comes to mind.
yes, most always.
: And sometimes "congruent" does.
very, very rarely. Keep 'em if you find 'em. I've worked with a
couple in the past...
Just an opinion. I'm known to have a few... :-)
scott
