And it's all Microsoft's fault. Again.
It seems that there is a worm that exploits a vulnerability in SQL Server spreading fast, and flooding the net with traffic, not to mention compromising sites that use SQL Server.
On the web site I manage for a living (which does not use any Microsoft products), I'm seeing about one hit per second from infected machines trying to propagate the worm (UDP connections to port 1434), which are all being blocked by the firewall. But all sites are likely to be affected just by the volume of traffic degrading the net.
Check here and here for current Internet status.
[Updated 09:45 25 Jan 2003] I'm seeing about one hit every thirty seconds for port 1434 on my ADSL connection at home, too. If the worm is hitting IP addresses at random, that's about a hundred million packets per second globally.
Posted by Mike Scott at January 25, 2003 09:24 AM | TrackBack