web outage?

[Net Llama!]

Yea, basically it all sucked last night, and early this morning.  Seems 
to be noticably improved today.  Fscking M$.

On 01/25/03 12:18, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Anyone notice this? I got this message from my isp....
> 
> ===========
> 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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