Paul Jasa wrote:

Dear Nanogers,

Is anyone aware of a "slowdown" issue throughout the US AT&T network since 8/18 at around 4pm which is causing a lot of internet circuits (including DSL) to be inaccessible and/or appear down from the outside world? AT&T says this has been escalated to "Level 4" with no ETA and affecting the whole country. I am seeing this problem in the San Francisco area. Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing anything that would confirm AT&T's claim, and fishing for more info about the possible cause and ETA. Thanks!

Considering the hideous ping storm going on right now, caused by some moron's attempt to write a "good" worm to go out and destroy the "bad" worm, I'd bet on that alone. I actually had to shut down all of the snort rules that had anything to do with pinging. I had logged nearly half a gig's worth in less than 24 hours, and my network is only a puny /28. I saw things start up at work earlier this morning, and I curse the stupidity of the imbecilic excuse for a neanderthal that thought this would be clever. The next person that says anything about writing a good worm in my presence had better have insurance. Len, I love you, you're a great guy, but this worm is not "benevolent" -- it's just a piece of crap, and very poorly thought out at that. The pings are coming from it, and I DON'T have any stupid windows machines on my network, so you might imagine my ecstasy at being hammered like this. Feh. -- You've confused equality of opportunity for equality of outcomes, and have seriously confused justice with equality. -- Woodchuck