[Elecraft] List up?

Wed Jan 29 17:39:34 2003

Wow, I'm sure impressed! I always thought Al Gore invented the Internet. 

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From: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 05:23:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] List up?

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 [email protected] wrote:

> Bob, N7XY wrote:
> 
> "I haven't seen any official announcement, but it appears that qth.net
> had some problems, as several lists were extremely quiet."
> ==========
> A new virus hit many SQL servers world-wide a few days ago, slowing
> things down considerably. By now they should be back in business.
> 
> 73, de Earl, K6SE

Earl,

The packets-per-second and bits-per-second issues (IE; The worm spreading)
have been mitigated fairly effectively by efforts of backbone providers. 
One problem that we still face in that area is that on many backbones, the
filters to stop the attack have been put on peering interfaces. Peering
interfaces are the connections between providers. This option was chosen
by many because it is easier (less manpower involved, less apt to
fat-finger a router config) to implement these filters on say 100 peering
interfaces than to do it on 10,000 customer facing interfaces. While
these filters effectively keep infected customers of provider-A from
getting to providers B through ZZZZ, it does not prevent provider-A's
customers from hammering on other provider-A customers.
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