[95618] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names (kill this thread)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Sun Apr 1 00:23:16 2007
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:57:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9f5b76690300810d77e91f8603e70e44@zill.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>
> >> There is a current on-going Internet emergency: a critical 0day
> >> vulnerability currently exploited in the wild threatens numerous
> >> desktop
> >> systems which are being compromised and turned into bots,
>
> I feel very strongly that this is just
> yet-another-Windows-vulnerability.
>
> If I wanted to read about Windows vulnerabilities, then I would be
> subscribed to whatever list that is.
>
> As such, it really has no place on nanog.
>
> I don't want to have this list clogged every time some moron has his
> Windows 2000 / IIS v5.x site hacked.
>
> Further, you are suggesting that everyone else pay the freight for what
> are Microsoft's security problems.
>
> This "Internet Emergency" doesn't appear to be a problem on
> Linux/OSX/Solaris; nor have I read about Cisco IOS or CatOS, or
> Juniper's OS having problems either.
>
> I actually signed up to post instead of just lurking, specifically to
> ask you all to kill this thread.
>
> If the list feels otherwise, and that it is of interest and within
> nanog guidelines, then I acquiesce, respecting the greater wisdom of
> the list.
You do realize this post is not about Microsoft or IE 0days, right?
Gadi.
>
> --Patrick
>
