From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 22:10:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11D216A4BF for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:10:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF70343F93 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:10:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pkdb1@comcast.net) Received: from comcast.net (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com[12.231.115.57](untrusted sender)) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <20030829051034016003d30ce>; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:10:34 +0000 Message-ID: <3F4EE049.5080906@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:10:33 -0700 From: paul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030731 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200308282255.30730.durham@jcdurham.com> <3F4ED55C.6030605@comcast.net> <000501c36de6$5213a270$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <000501c36de6$5213a270$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Nachi Worm apparently causes "Live Lock" on 4.7 server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 05:10:35 -0000 Matthew Emmerton wrote: > They were doing the same thing at the IBM location where I work. It's > brutal if you are in the middle of something, but it's the only way to keep > the latest breed of MS virii/worms/whatever from spreading. agreed, but if a small subset of hosts can degrade the network -- the OP said three could saturate T1 -- I think it's a fair position to take. -- Paul Beard whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 "Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence" -- Time Bandits