I had a good chuckle when I called Cox to find out why I couldn't connect to
the Internet *at all* on Saturday (couldn't even get an IP address from
DHCP).  The recorded message I got before speaking with a tech support
person stated something to the effect of "Cox' network is down nationwide
due to a serious global worm attack.  We don't have local connectivity to do
troubleshooting.  We have no ETA when service will be restored! The sky is
falling!! The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have been sighted!!!  Oh, the
humanity!!!!  Please stay tuned to your local news for updates on this
attack."  So I hung up and turned on CNN Headline News just in time to catch
the story about a relatively harmless worm that had hit the Internet, but
had done hardly any damage, and had mostly been dealt with already.  

I thought about calling Cox back and demand answers, but decided to go
outside and enjoy the beautiful weather instead.  My connection was working
when I tried again later.  

~Jeff

On Monday, January 27, 2003 12:24 PM, BoBB wrote:

> Nope, most of the net came down due to a 6 month old 
> vulnerability in MS SQL that was essentially a DOS on 
> the entire internet, 3 of the 13 root servers were 
> brought to thier knee's and another 2 were taken down 
> for security reasons. At least thats what I have gathered
> from stuff that i have read.