[LINK] Storm Worm Botnet More Powerful Than Top Supercomputers

[Adrian Chadd]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007, Karl Auer wrote:

> Well, true - but a half hour out of service (let alone 2, 4, 10, 20...
> and counting) should probably have been sufficient to trigger even the
> most reluctant of routing protocols. I'd be perfectly happy with a
> quarter or half an hour.

Depends if its a constant outage or a flapping every few minutes.
Ah, routing protocols. :)

> traffic up - we got 500Mb just in retries and script-kiddy knock-knocks.
> 
> There is almost never a good reason to accept a plan with open ended
> traffic costs.

People still do. Especially with hosting..



Adrian