What's Behind The Odd Data? 264
citking writes "CNet is reporting that 'network administrators and security experts continue to search for the cause of an increasing amount of odd data that has been detected on the Internet.' While this has been going on now for a few days and some experts have already declared victory against the 'trojan', others aren't so sure that the real culprit has been identified yet. Other stories can be found here(1) and here(2)."
Shouldn't this be the.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Heh
Re:For those too lazy to read the article : ) (Score:3, Insightful)
History repeats (Score:5, Insightful)
Sounds like famous last words to me...
Hmmmm... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Why... (Score:5, Insightful)
The problems with this are: 1) it relies on everyone behaving & having a clue. As we've seen with patches, that just doesn't happen. 2) There are all sorts of situations (like customers multi-homing) that make these filters not scale well, so some ISPs just leave them off entirely.
This subject has come up on NANOG about every other month for the past few years. It's not been resolved yet.
1024 byte window? (Score:3, Insightful)
What OS uses a window this small by default? Why would you ever set an initial window smaller than the mss?