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Re: Slammer Worm Impact on MIT

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Mahoney)
Sun Jan 26 12:20:43 2003

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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:20:40 -0500
To: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@mit.edu>
From: Bob Mahoney <bobmah@MIT.EDU>
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I don't believe we have any of the AFS/Athena services isolated at 
this point, at least not explicitly...  I'll have to leave this one 
to sharper minds.  :-)  There is certainly still an elevated traffic 
level in general, but I haven't heard any other Athena-specific 
reports of problems.

-Bob

At 12:15 PM -0500 1/26/03, Roger A. Roach wrote:
>Bob,
>
>BTW, I don't know if this was related, but I could not login to my Athena
>workstation this morning.  It said that activation was not complete. I tried
>rebooting it and it did not help.  I logged in via the console and got error
>messages about unable to find /var/athena/attachtab/mountpoint. I had to
>manually recreate it and "locker" in order to get things to work.
>
>I assume it is some sort of bug in the activation process that was affected
>by the DDOS, but it should have been able to recover (thus the cc to bugs).
>
>I just thought you might be interested.
>
>Roger


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