web outage? <OT>

[tom]

Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

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

I did not recieve anything from my ISP, but
they run Solaris :)

I thought it was 5 roots of the DNS went down, so
go figure.


>===========
>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.

[ snipped for length ]





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