web outage?

[Ken Moffat]

Anyone notice this? I got this message from my isp....

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Last night, Friday, January 25, 2003, the Internet experienced a 
massive, worldwide Denial of Service attack. The attack was caused by a 
new computer 'worm' known as Sapphire which exploited a known 
vulnerability in Microsoft's SQL database server program. It is believed 
the worm originated in Asia or Europe, but its effects were felt around 
the globe.

The Drizzle network was neither a specific target nor source of this 
attack. However, due to the extraordinary intensity and pervasiveness of 
it, our connectivity to the Internet backbone was severely impacted 
while our network administrators worked feverishly to reroute whatever 
traffic we could. By midnight, access was restored as much as possible.

As of this writing on Saturday morning, the Internet is recovering, but 
there are still pockets of networks where servers are unreachable. We 
anticipate conditions will improve steadily as network administrators 
around the world isolate and repair their affected servers. But in the 
short term, users should expect delays or an inability to reach some 
sites over the next several hours, possibly days.

Unless you are running Microsoft's SQL server, you need not take any 
specific action in response to this attack. (Note: this attack only 
affected the Microsoft SQL server, not other SQL servers such as MySQL.)
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Ken Moffat
kmoffat at drizzle.com