[84668] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: router worms and International Infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Tue Sep 20 02:20:41 2005
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:18:43 +0200
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <432fa695.14.1d7d.1505628187@mauigateway.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Subnetwork specific worms? I only want to take down as1,
> as2 and as3, for example, rather than a large-scale
> 'internet killer' outage.
Almost a year ago we had a crisis in Israel where something caused ONLY
Israeli ISP clients to stop being able to use their DSL connections, and
on the SAME DAY.
We believe it was a targeted worm.
Who said this can't happen? It already did. The biggest impact was the
help desks being DDoS'd.
Gadi.
