web outage?

[Bill Day]

Wierd, I read about that in the paper today, but I played quake well into
the wee hours of friday night and noticed nothing..

Bill Day

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: web outage?


> 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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