Re: RE: SQL Slammer - lessons learned

["I.R. van Dongen" <vdongen () hetisw nl>]

> Huh?  Our IDSes detect both Code Red I, II and III and Nimda every day,
> as does my Wormcatcher.  I don't know *anyone* who is blocking port 80.
> Do you?
accually, the rotterdam area of chello ISP blocks port 80.
They started blocking that when code red 1 almost took their internal network down.
Which meanth for *nix users, that first came the flood of requests that came with code red, then their port 80 was 
suddenly unreachable.
So instead of warning non-patching users, they block all users.

> Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
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> The University of Texas at Dallas
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