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 Linux 2.2.20-1tr i586 7:10pm up 22 days, 45 min, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 We're still up at irc.openprojects.net @ #linux-users or irc.freenode.net @ #linux-users http://counter.li.org #83358 http://sxs.daysdomain.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.) > > ============ > > > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > 1:20pm up 11 days, 20:49, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.09, 0.02 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.445 / Virus Database: 250 - Release Date: 1/21/03 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
