[73499] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mega DOS tomorrow?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Aug 25 15:29:29 2004
To: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:53:44 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:28:45 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:53:44 EDT, Andy Dills said:
> So, slashdot is linking to some news sites that are reporting that
> Aleksandr Gostev from Kapersky Labs in Russia has predicted that a large
> chunk of the net will be shut down tomorrow.
And here's the *real* reason why:
XP2 SP2 goes on AU tomorrow...
http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=23613&category=main
Might be interesting to see how much of a traffic blip this causes.
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