Re: mail problems

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <E18cSGq-0007x1-00@rip.psg.com>, Randy Bush writes:
>by now, you know it's an ancient ms sql 'sploit raising major havoc on
>a global scale
>

This was unclear to me at the time I sent my note, even though I was 
aware of the attack.  We had had some file server problems yesterday at 
work; by interfering with the NFS traffic, it was masquerading as 
a recurrence.  On top of that, one of our switches lost a line card.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)