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Re: router worms and International Infrastructure

  • From: Christopher L. Morrow
  • Date: Mon Sep 19 17:20:29 2005 
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Florian Weimer wrote:

>
> * Gadi Evron:
>
> > I would really like to hear some thoughts from the NANOG community on
> > threats such as the one described above. Let us not get into an argument
> > about 0-days and consider how many routers are actually patched the
> > first... day.. week, month? after a vulnerability is released.
>
> The bad guys obviously aren't interested in taking down the Internet.
> I wouldn't worry too much. 8-)
>
> > I don't want the above to sound as FUD. My point is not to yell "death
> > of the Internet" but rather to get some people moving on what I believe
> > to be a threat, and considering it on a broader scale is LONG over-due.
>

I'm curious as to why people think that the problem isn't being addressed?

> I would ask some people who have experienced meltdowns on large-scale
> networks, due to Slammer, Blaster or something else.  Basically, what
> do you do when you don't have management access to your network gear
> anymore, and stuff like that.
>
> To some extent, what you fear has already happened, and we could learn
> from that.
>