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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Falcon X on January 25, 2003, 02:42:37 am

Title: Wtf?
Post by: Falcon X on January 25, 2003, 02:42:37 am

What the hell happened to the internet? A ton went down... and AOL and two others are still down.

http://www.internetpulse.net/

Title: Wtf?
Post by: Pera on January 25, 2003, 07:37:40 am

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/01/25/internet.attack.ap/index.html

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Post by: Setekh on January 25, 2003, 07:48:52 am

I wonder how much trouble we would be in if somehow, the whole net just suffered a catastrophic failure and internet communication just broke down. Like, say, if some guys decided to destroy all the major servers and inter-continental pipelines.

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Post by: an0n on January 25, 2003, 08:08:56 am

****ing marvelous.

*waits for CNN to announce an expansion of scope for the War On Terror*

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Post by: TheVirtu on January 25, 2003, 08:25:33 am

My ISP went down as well around 1am....

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Post by: an0n on January 25, 2003, 09:34:13 am

So it's not all bad news then.

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Post by: IceFire on January 25, 2003, 10:54:11 am

Volition Watch has been down for me for over 24 hours now...and several other sites seem to be going between online and offline.

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Post by: Stryke 9 on January 25, 2003, 11:02:41 am

Hmph. Thought it was my DSL line going bad.

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Post by: Knight Templar on January 25, 2003, 11:32:05 am

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Originally posted by StrykeIX
Hmph. Thought it was my DSL line going bad.

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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on January 25, 2003, 11:34:19 am

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Originally posted by Setekh
I wonder how much trouble we would be in if somehow, the whole net just suffered a catastrophic failure and internet communication just broke down. Like, say, if some guys decided to destroy all the major servers and inter-continental pipelines.

Sounds like someone's been taking Tracer Tong's instructions a little too seriously.

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Post by: Eishtmo on January 25, 2003, 11:56:35 am

Sorry about that guys, I didn't mean for that program to get loose.  It took a while for me to encourage it to gather into a single machine, then format the drive with a shotgun, but I got it, so you shouldn't have any more problems.

I really need to stop making possecessed programs.

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Post by: Stryke 9 on January 25, 2003, 12:01:33 pm

You KNOW contracts with Satan for better prrogging skills always get queered. I mean, hell, look at what happened to Gates.

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Post by: Fury on January 25, 2003, 12:06:28 pm

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Driverheaven (http://www.driverheaven.net)
There appears to be a Microsoft SQL Monitor worm spreading. Massive UDP traffic on port 1434 is affecting major internet backbones, including UUNET. Of course, servers and home users are being flooded as well. Many websites are currently inaccessible or slow, depending on your location and ISP.

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Warp2Search (http://www.warp2search.net)
The SQL worm attack began Friday. It's sort of DoS'ing port 1434. Affected software is Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as to be read in this CERT/CC bulletin (http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/370308). Affected users and server administrators are advised to shut down servers and install this this security patch (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-039.asp) or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP3 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9032f608-160a-4537-a2b6-4cb265b80766&DisplayLang=en#filelist) immediately. After patching SQL should run normally.

Didn't we learn anything from CodeRed issue? When there's a security patch, admins should also install it.

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Post by: Kamikaze on January 25, 2003, 01:02:50 pm

Yeah the sorcery server suffered from the DoS attack too... freakish thing, I first thought it was a normal netsplit then the global announcement came and said "denial of service attack blah blah blah blah"

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Post by: Kamikaze on January 25, 2003, 01:03:41 pm

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Originally posted by Mr. Fury



Didn't we learn anything from CodeRed issue? When there's a security patch, admins should also install it.

unfortunately the title admin doesn't necessarily come with a brain attached :p

hmm tried to edit and merge my two posts together but apparently we don't get delete-our-own-posts permissions :blah:

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Post by: Fineus on January 25, 2003, 01:16:55 pm

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Originally posted by Kamikaze
unfortunately the title admin doesn't necessarily come with a brain attached :p

Ain't that the truth ;)

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Post by: Admiral LSD on January 25, 2003, 01:45:55 pm

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Originally posted by Kamikaze
unfortunately the title admin doesn't necessarily come with a brain attached :p

Thats not helped by Microsoft making enterprise network management look so simple even a monkey could do it...

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Post by: SKYNET-011 on January 25, 2003, 01:53:36 pm

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Originally posted by Admiral LSD
a monkey could do it...

Heh, a monkey DID 'do' it.

Think about it...

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Post by: CP5670 on January 25, 2003, 02:20:08 pm

eh, no wonder I could not get on the internet last night... :p