Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Gary Coates
Appears to relate to this cert advisory http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1996-01.html We have it totally blocked on our network but the routers are working over time just rejecting packets. The only way to stop it is to stop MySQL or kill the hosts network connection. [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: New worm / port 1434?

2003-01-25 Thread Gary Coates
Duplicated info.. But this is an old worm ;-( http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1996-01.html Pete Ashdown wrote: * Avleen Vig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030124 23:50] writeth: It seems we have a new worm hitting Microsoft SQL server servers on port 1434. Affirmative. Be sure to block 1434 UDP o

Re: number of hops != performance

2002-11-05 Thread Gary Coates
In a commercial sense hops are seen as bad, points of failure(?) or 'distance from the middle of the internet'?. Who knows Traceroutes aren't great at seeing whats REALLY going on. I suspect if everyone removed all their 'hop hiding' technology traceroutes would be at least 60% longer, the lat