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Re: Worldcom recovery efforts
by Sean Donelan 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

All four locations I had inquiries about were located outside of New York City, but within 100 miles of Manhattan. Several folks sent me e-mail they started to see circuits come back up inside New York City on Friday, with several people saying their circuits in New York City came back yesterday and last night. So it looks like Worldcom is concentrating on circuits inside New York City first. I think everyone understands there is some prioritization of repairs happening. They were just getting a bit frustrated in not knowing where on the list they were.

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route-map match clause for existance of a BGP session?
by Bulger, Tim 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

Sorry for the non-operational content, but looking for some Cisco advice. Does anyone happen to know a trick for a route map match clause that will only match if a BGP session is established with a given peer? The idea being to only redistribute a particular static route based on the availability of the peer through which the next hop of the static would be configured... Thanks in advance, Tim

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RE: Trend Micro FIX_NIMDA.EXE - was Re: Virus fix
by Roeland Meyer 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

[quoting HTML isn't fun, The attributions are probably wrong.] -----Original Message----- From: Eric Germann Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 4:53 AM >-----Original Message----- >From: Indra PRAMANA >Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:56 PM > >At 07:46 PM 9/19/01 -0700, Andras Bellak wrote: > >>I still haven't seen anything that cleans up >>the htm, html, asp, etc files, but there are a >>few utilities that work fine for doing that one.> > >>What are the utilities? Where can I get them? > >Norton Antivirus will clean most of the htm, >html, asp, etc files. http://www.symantec.com What's standard practice around here, is to always deploy production web-content via CVS version control. If the content gets munged, simply re-deploy from the CVS repository. CVS is little to no cost and documentation is readily available, even from OReilly. There are Win2K binaries available, from Borland.

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Worldcom recovery efforts
by Sean Donelan 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

How are Worldcom's recovery efforts progressing? I've talked to several people with Worldcom circuits down since last week. While its understandable, I've heard about almost every other carrier restoring circuits except Worldcom. After Tuesday, everyone told me Worldcom has been doing an excellent job answering the phone. But no one seems to know if Worldcom is or isn't restoring customer (i.e non-emergency) circuits yet. One customer called AT&T and had a brand-new circuit installed this week. Their Worldcom circuit is still down. If Worldcom is still operating in emergency mode, I can understand why things are delayed. But a couple of people asked me should they continue to wait for Worldcom to fix the circuits, or did they sustain more damage than has been reported, and they should start making arrangements with other carriers.

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Re: Pattern matching odd HTTP request
by Bill McGonigle 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

On Thursday, September 20, 2001, at 10:36 AM, Noah wrote: > I haven't tried it myself (yet... it's on the plate), but mod_tsunami > (http://bert.tuxfamily.org/mod_tsunami/) may work better. It limits the > number of connections on a per-directory basis, using the apache > scoreboard. The primary issue I had with mod_throttle when I was looking > at it (a few months back) was that it was fairly CPU intensive. This may > or may not be an issue depending on how much traffic you push on a > "normal" day (whatever that is). > Looks like a good module, but in this case the server hasn't received a GET yet (and won't), so I don't think it would have a chance to do any URI pattern matching... -Bill

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Re: Worldcom recovery efforts
by Lee Watterworth 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

We had problems with a worldcom T1 in Staten Island, which were resolved fairly quickly (no dispatch). Another ticket last week was resolved quickly (no lmi on that same circuit). I have not been able to get an AT&T dispatch (Verizon) to a location near Boston.. Lee -------------------------- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld (www.BlackBerry.net) -----Original Message----- From: Sean Donelan <sean(a)donelan.com> To: nanog(a)merit.edu <nanog(a)merit.edu> Sent: Thu Sep 20 03:38:36 2001 Subject: Worldcom recovery efforts How are Worldcom's recovery efforts progressing? I've talked to several people with Worldcom circuits down since last week. While its understandable, I've heard about almost every other carrier restoring circuits except Worldcom. After Tuesday, everyone told me Worldcom has been doing an excellent job answering the phone. But no one seems to know if Worldcom is or isn't restoring customer (i.e non-emergency) circuits yet. One customer called AT&T and had a brand-new circuit installed this week. Their Worldcom circuit is still down. If Worldcom is still operating in emergency mode, I can understand why things are delayed. But a couple of people asked me should they continue to wait for Worldcom to fix the circuits, or did they sustain more damage than has been reported, and they should start making arrangements with other carriers.

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Re: Pattern matching odd HTTP request
by Karsten W. Rohrbach 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

Brian Behlendorf(brian@collab.net)@2001.09.18 18:50:56 +0000: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > > source ip based connection rate limiting would perhaps solve the > > problem. are there any modules available out there to accomplish this > > task? > > http://modules.apache.org/search?id=241 > > is the only one I know of. I've not used it myself, and it's not a part > of the "core" distribution. If people use it and it works, I'd appreciate > knowing, as this comes up frequently enough that I'd agitate for getting > it included. update: mod_throttle/3.1.2 seems to do the thing (as far as i can see from the source) but i cannot get the thing running on my freebsd 4.3 box here, i keeps dumping core all the time. it is designed to already check the source ip address in the fixup handler. _all_ other modules i downloaded do not do this. i tried the following ones: - mod_throttle/3.1.2 dumps core at runtime, dang thing - mod_throttle_access/0.2 starts processing after GET request - mod_bandwidth/2.0.3 starts processing after GET request - mod_bwshare/0.1.2 shmget: invalid argument but SHM is there, i can see it with ipcs(1)! - mod_conn/1999 starts processing after GET request - mod_limitipconn/0.0.3 starts processing after GET request [http://modules.apache.org/search?id=123] is the url to mod_throttle which looks very mature (but runs buggy on my box, whyever). i am pretty tired now from my long uptime hunting that stupid nimda worm and getting rid of it on some of my customers' servers. i hate iis, yuck. mod_throttle looks like it could do it, because it contains the relevant code in the fixup handler. However the policies are pretty weird -- at least for me in my current state. man, it's been a long time since i hacked my last apache module. must be 5 years or so... if somebody gets mod_throttle running on freebsd4, drop me a line how you did it. it's nearly midnight and i'm going to take a looooong nap now. btw, if your log files keep growing and growing, use multilog from daemontools to autorotate them and keep them at a specified maximum size: ErrorLog "|exec setuidgid log multilog s200000 n5 /path/to/errlogdir" daemontools are at [http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html] you could even do ErrorLog "|exec grep -v '/scripts/' | setuidgid log multilog s200000 n5 /path/to/errlogdir" to get rid of the darn worm-generated errors. lowering the timeout does not make much sense, the best solution would be having the max connections from one ip in the scoreboard structures and connection handler because it _must_ be processed at connection time, not when the request is already in -- there never will be a GET or any other request... i see that this can be doen in the fixup_handler in an module, but i am quite rusty concerning the apache api ;-) brian, i'd appreciate if you would forward this to the core people. thanks. i got an important appointment with my bed now... take care, /k (tired like hell) -- > May the source be with you! KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.net/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- catch(a)spam.de GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 10x

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RE: Trend Micro FIX_NIMDA.EXE - was Re: Virus fix
by Indra PRAMANA 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

Andras, At 07:46 PM 9/19/01 -0700, Andras Bellak wrote: >Norton released a definition file yesterday that cleaned everything but >the .eml files and made the systems resistant to re-infection. They >released an update today that got the .eml files as well. Yes, but this requires us to install the antivirus software as well. Do you know any tools like FIX_NIMDA.EXE that can fix the problem automatically without having to use the antivirus software? >I still haven't seen anything that cleans up the htm, html, asp, etc >files, but there are a few utilities that work fine for doing that one. What are the utilities? Where can I get them? Thank you for your help. Cheers.

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Using NBAR to block Nimda
by Matt Martini 19 Sep '01

19 Sep '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Does anyone have a comprehensive filter to stop Nimda using Cisco's NBAR? Matt __________________________ http://www.invision.net/ _______________________ Matthew E. Martini, PE InVision.com, Inc. (631) 543-1000 x104 Chief Technology Officer matt(a)invision.net (631) 864-8896 Fax _______________________________________________________________________pgp_ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.1i iQEVAwUBO6ke4GtXn16/JS7ZAQEUoAgAjvwY/fnoJmtmMke03I8uOIxDNUzGqX+e sP5L9Fcekg4qKF7Jix4dW+Hk+jZuwp0cSHwRsiGswqIHgHZVjRjliMD4QTjDO4FU vYUSKM4nedZhTBjIDlMp3AT9BfLjI1pV1tzYbo2L8otMGdeO3Iv/Ymd+LGZx22Fl eNvIOE+LzfipupFcA12AXstJvTH9QZ4Vuzap7ckxzA5NrTXtWphhjiLX0gKqlTsc aXp/oL/UfzMps7LiF+my2OsKCBIjyA+mLon0qdS5vs8rGtuES3wADmX/sDF8wuhr 9LFpI2VmM5JcrjwwEZIfc5Iq6M4h0so3nfwJDyBh0x5cDlDNimWH6w== =+Ucd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: Trend Micro FIX_NIMDA.EXE - was Re: Virus fix
by Steve Smith 19 Sep '01

19 Sep '01

Don't know, luck for us our file filters are doing the job so we have not had to use it. Just thought it may help people in a bind. regards, Steve -----Original Message----- From: Indra PRAMANA [mailto:indra@webvisions.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:08 PM To: Steve Smith Cc: nanog(a)nanog.org Subject: Trend Micro FIX_NIMDA.EXE - was Re: Virus fix Steve, Yes, I think they are the first one. One slight problem, the tool will delete all non-cleanable files without logging or tracking them. Is there any safer way to clean the virus automatically? Cheers. At 04:27 PM 9/19/01 -0500, Steve Smith wrote: Looks like Trend has a cleaning tool now, www.anitivirus.com <http://www.anitivirus.com/> Steve Smith MCSE, CCNA, CCDA Data Networks Technical Manager Freeliant Inc. (901)309-3919 The brave may not live forever, but the cautious never live.

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