TCP session disconnection caused by Code Red?

Mon Aug 6 18:29:10 UTC 2001

> For the last few days, our network seems to be basically unreachable from the
> outside. Most incoming TCP sessions (web requests, incoming mail, telnet
> sessions, etc.) often fail with a simple "Connection refused" like nobody is

Your routers are brain dead from the load.. routers that are used to
handling a few thousand connections are being asked to handle 10's of
thousands. 1 good 1000+ address scan from an ISDN user kills my
Lucent/Ascend TNT unless we filter for it. 