[92473] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri Sep 22 00:43:55 2006
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:32:41 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>,
Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20060922041133.GJ6682@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > 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
so, how many netops folks use or are forced to use IE
in the mgmt of their particular sector of an IP network?
netops being deaf/blind; "... the MRTG/Cricket graphs are
not visable... does that mean nothing is happening?..."
might be considered operationaly significant. Or not..
YMMV...
--bill
