[92470] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Sep 22 00:14:19 2006
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:11:33 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
Cc: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20060922040158.GD25525@skywalker.creative.net.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:01:58PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006, Gadi Evron wrote:
>
> > > Paranoia has its place, but this ain't the place.
> >
> > The report is NOT paranoia. Several LARGE user ISPs suffer immensely from
> > this. Use this information if it is useful to you and you encounter the
> > same problems.
>
> Does it impact the network operation?
>
> Eg, does it adversely affect the network? (say, like Beagle did.)
I was thinking sql-slammer, massive flood causing signifcant
amount of network infrastructure to go down. (people on low speed links
with large blocks of address space were DoS'ed off the network).
I don't think of drive-by browser/desktop infection as a networking
issue, more of an end-host issue.
- Jared
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