router worms and International Infrastructure

Tue Sep 20 07:18:43 UTC 2005

> Subnetwork specific worms?  I only want to take down as1,
> as2 and as3, for example, rather than a large-scale
> 'internet killer' outage.

Almost a year ago we had a crisis in Israel where something caused ONLY 
Israeli ISP clients to stop being able to use their DSL connections, and 
on the SAME DAY.

We believe it was a targeted worm.

Who said this can't happen? It already did. The biggest impact was the 
help desks being DDoS'd.

	Gadi.