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lesson learned: stop using /makeshift/ layer3 switches (without naming vendor) to run L3 core -J On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:22:52PM -0800, Brent Van Dussen wrote: > > Well folks, since the middle of August I've been tracking the spread and > subsequent efforts by our community to stop the nachia/welchia infection > that took down so many networks. > > Sadly, by my estimations, only about 20-30% of infected hosts were > cleaned. After Jan 1, 2004 it appears that the thousands, (millions?) of > remaining infected hosts were rebooted and the worm removed > itself. Network traffic has finally returned to normal. > > What kind of effects did everyone see from this devastating worm and what > lessons did we learn for preventing network downtime in the future? -- James Jun (formerly Haesu) TowardEX Technologies, Inc. 1740 Massachusetts Ave. Boxborough, MA 01719 Consulting, IPv4 & IPv6 colocation, web hosting, network design & implementation http://www.towardex.com | [email protected] Cell: (978)394-2867 | Office: (978)263-3399 Ext. 170 Fax: (978)263-0033 | AIM: GigabitEthernet0 NOC: http://www.twdx.net | POC: HAESU-ARIN, HDJ1-6BONE
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