[ale] New worm destablized Internet

[James S. Cochrane]

I just spent four hours at work, none of our Unix servers were DIRECTLY 
impacted, but the amount of broadcast traffic did impact our networks, and 
convinced several of our HA systems that they were experiencing network 
outages (mainly seemed to impact HP boxes, going to have to look into 
whether there are problems with HP-UX 11.0's network stack).  So it might 
not be impacting the ATM network directly, but could be impacting the 
back-end networks where their servers are, preventing the ATM's from 
connecting to verify account balances and funds available, etc...

James

At 05:13 PM 1/25/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks, I knew I was right about that little bit.  I just wonder how Bank 
>Of America could
>make a statement like that now.
>
>Adrin
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Jim
> > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 4:59 PM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: Re: [ale] New worm destablized Internet
> >
> >
> > On Saturday 25 January 2003 04:46 pm, Adrin wrote:
> > > Just heard on the news that at least one bank is having trouble with 
> ATMs.
> > > Kind of makes you wonder what kind of security they have on their system.
> > > And I thought the ATM network was separate from Internet?
> >
> > All of the ATM's I know about are on a separate network from the Internet.
> > Think about it. ATM's have been around a lot longer than the Internet. And
> > why would anyone in their right mind hool ATM's up to the Internet. 
> Remember:
> > Banking is tightly regulated. And in spite of the popular perception that
> > government can't do anything right, the ATM network, in my experience, is
> > very secure and works very well.
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