Lots of fun from the Slammer/Nimda days... Taking affected devices online was agonizingly slow on networks that were saturated and in many cases at that time had routers that used software-based forwarding. Thank you jms On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 3:50 PM Gary Sparkes via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Not much beyond what remains posted around/online, but I remember a decent solid 2-days of reporting in major news networks about impacts from it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Slammer
There's some interesting links/reads in there. The BBC one is definitely a frozen in time throwback, that's for sure.
Was enough to take countries offline at the time, that's for sure. BBC link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2693925.stm) explicitly calls out south korea.
-----Original Message----- From: Marco Moock via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2026 3:11 PM To: nanog@lists.nanog.org Cc: Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> Subject: Re: OT: Routers with highest uptime
Am 25.02.2026 um 19:46:35 Uhr schrieb Gary Sparkes via NANOG:
Even 23 years ago, not quite the flex.
Remember, SQL Slammer that took out / degraded large chunks of the internet?
That vulnerability had been fixed in a patch released 6 months prior to that incident.
Is there any public info about that and how far the impact was?
-- kind regards Marco
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