Which had more impact on the net?

Fri Sep 28 05:14:43 UTC 2001

At 16:05 27/09/01 -0700, George William Herbert wrote:

>Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> committed:
> >Which had more impact on the the net?
> >   1. Destruction in New York City Sept 11 and following days
> >   2. Nimda virus/worm on Sept Sept 18 and following days
> >   3. Multiple fiber cuts on Sept 26

4. ICANN's thoughts on Internet security

-Hank

>My home business was down for hours from side effects of 1,
>most of a day from side effects of 2, and didn't notice 3.
>
>Current backbone engineers I talk to on a regular basis fall
>about 50:50 into similar experience and having also taken
>a hit Sept 26 AM when Backhoe Roundup began.
>
>Speaking of which, this *has* been an interesting 2+a bit
>week period; reflecting on the various effects sounds like
>a good NANOG paper.
>
> >The Nimda, Code Red I/II, and other worms had a more difuse
> >impact.  Their effects show up with a ramping period, peaking
> >after a few hours and then slowly declining over several days.
> >Their impact is extremely long lived.  It mostly affects the
> >edges of the network.
>
>I'd disagree somewhat there.  I think it mostly affects things
>the further from "backbones" that you get; a lot of ISPs took
>severe hits across their entire network depending on the manner
>in which IP space is allocated across their networks interacting
>with the attack patterns of Nimda.  That doesn't map well to at
>least some usage of "edge", but I think I get your point...
>
>
>-george william herbert
>gherbert at retro.com