At 10:22 AM 1/17/2002 -0800, Cox, Danny H. wrote: >I don't completely agree with your comment regarding "only >knock off bandwidth" > >When you start getting code red attacks coming from about 500 different >concurrent locations, you will see why. > >I had a DSL router and a T1 go down because of the load caused by this >crap. It does not matter if you block that garbage. It can still cause >grief. Especially if you host your own mail, ftp and www - and the Inet >connection goes down @ 1:30 A.M. and you live 30 miles from work. (sorry >for the run-on) > >Never take that crap lightly. I started reporting my hit lists to our >ISP in an effort to get some of these systems off the net. > >IT people need to take more responsibility for this problem. If we do >not work to eliminate this type of traffic, things will only get worse. > >I consider it part of my job. > >Just a thought.
I agree whole-heartedly. I work with an ISP and this is not an infrequent problem for us (colocated servers being infected, customers whose T1 lines are maxed out because of some infected host, etc...) We've never been unhappy at someone telling us about a problem...
