Re: [9fans] is sources unreachable?

[David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>]

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You are right, sources was up last time I updated something which was Monday
afternoon.  If people have been having problems for a week, it was probably
something else.  Two weeks ago it was the power grid.

This was indeed the worst infection I've seen.  The Plan9/Linux/BSDers got
to look really smug while helping people disinfect their µsoft machines.

I found the worm quite helpful.  It pinpointed every machine that wasn't
keeping up with windows critical updates and/or mcafee .dat's without really
doing any permanent harm (I hope).  A lot of those systems were infected
with a bunch of other viruses that noone was noticing because they were
latent or just not noisey enough.  It'll cause a change in tools/precedures
to keep everyone's system updated.

Of course, you have to count that against the man hours it sonsumed, which was
sizable.  Also, it doesn't seem to be affecting anyone's attitude towards
depending so heavily on one very vulnerable OS.

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From: northern snowfall <dbailey27@ameritech.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] is sources unreachable?
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:06:56 -0500
Message-ID: <3F4CBB00.6060103@ameritech.net>

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>No, the fossil serving the sources crashed.  I've rebooted while we try to figure out
>what broke.
>
It may have crashed lately, but people have been complaining
about reaching sources for the past week. So, unless it's been
crashed for a week (yet still randomly is able to server users)
I'll still attribute the brunt of the trouble to the worms.

Just the other day a friend of mine and I noticed that network
connections from his UK machine to other UK machines
were being routed through the US and Canada, whereas
they previously had not.

Don

http://www.7f.no-ip.com/~north_