It turns out that my power outage has been a mixed blessing. If you haven’t heard there’s a worm on the loose which is tormenting Microsoft IIS servers across the net. It’s duty, install itself into IIS, spread itself to other IIS servers, and wait for July 20th GMT to attack DOS style on whitehouse.gov. At work our servers were hit causing our firewalls to literally melt under the DOS traffic. Word on the street Cisco 675 routers melt under the pressure too. So my Cisco was off all day long. I missed much of the traffic. Then I read this comment on Slashdot about weird requests in Apache logs. Sure enough, I’ve had a TON of them. So score one for Linux, Apache, and open source. Since I had my router forwarding port 80 to the server that took most of the DOS requests away from the router and sent it to the Linux box. My Linux box has just sat there grinning and barring it.
Archive for July 19th, 2001
Jul 19
Jul 19
I really, really hate Xcel Energy. My power has been out for 15 of 18 hours today. argh. Good thing I just paid a very hefty electric bill. Maybe now they can afford to keep my lights on.
