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Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:11:06 +0100 (CET)
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, William Allen Simpson wrote:
Worse, it only takes 1 infected host to re-infect the entire net in about 10 minutes. So, the entire 'net has to cooperate, or we'll see continual re-infection.
Only if people didn't fix their servers. And if they didn't, this "reverse" denial of service attack is a good reminder.
Unfortunately, this is a cost that prevents pain to others, rather than self-inflicted pain. Another pollution of the commons issue.
Seems to me that filtering is no longer necessary unless you have reason to believe your customers are going to install new vulnerable boxes or vulnerable software on existing boxes AND their pipe to you is so big the excess traffic is going to hurt you more than them.
Current thread:
- scripts to map IP to AS? William Allen Simpson (Feb 20)
- Re: scripts to map IP to AS? Alif The Terrible (Feb 20)
- Re: scripts to map IP to AS? Hank Nussbacher (Feb 20)
- Re: scripts to map IP to AS? Johannes Ullrich (Feb 20)
- M$SQL cleanup incentives William Allen Simpson (Feb 20)
- Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 20)
- Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 20)
- Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives William Allen Simpson (Feb 21)
- Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives John Kristoff (Feb 21)
- Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives Randy Bush (Feb 21)
- Re: scripts to map IP to AS? Hank Nussbacher (Feb 20)
- Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 21)
- Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives Doug Clements (Feb 22)
- Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives William Allen Simpson (Feb 22)
- Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives Doug Clements (Feb 22)
- Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives jlewis (Feb 22)
- Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives Stephen Sprunk (Feb 22)
- Re: scripts to map IP to AS? Alif The Terrible (Feb 20)