Code Red Worm advisory

George Toft plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:13:19 -0700


Looks to me like the moved the web site to some hapless webhosting
company (Abovenet) to free up their network from the attacks.  A 
sacrificial lamb, so to speak . . .

<dream>
I would love that contract - to know you will get blasted with 
traffic by several hundred thousand servers once a month and to charge
the US Govt $1400/mbps.  Put in a weasel clause as this contract
was born knowing there will be DOS attacks so there cannot be any
Service Level Agreements.  Sweet!
</dream>

George


jeffrey l koehn wrote:
> 
> As of July 21,2001 www.whitehouse.gov has been running on Linux.
> 
> > Matt Alexander wrote:
> > > Quoting Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>:
> > > > I checked - just for fun and <http://www.whitehouse.gov> is
> > > > up and running
> > > > so apparently they have figured out a method for deflecting
> > > > the DOS attacks.
> > >
> > > They managed to move www.whitehouse.gov to a different IP
> > > address before the attack occured.
> ------------------------------------------
> CYCLOX
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