Sprint/site outage - CoasterBuzz

FYI, because I know some of you were probably concerned, Sprint got nailed bad, nationally, with this latest Internet work that was out there. Our servers were unaffected, but were still reduced to paper weights while Sprint sorted it out.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
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Glad to hear that you weren't (directly) affected by the worm...

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Yeah....my work is still trying to get everything cleaned up. Nothing like running blind all day.

I'll have to look this 'worm" up... I noticed shortly after CBuzz went down that my site (on Sprint-owned Earthlink) also went down for a time. Weird stuff.

Glad you're hardware/software wasn't affected Jeff.

Jim

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The worm infected servers running MS SQL Server (the database software running this, and many other sites). It's surprising that it caused such a problem because few machines on the Net (relatively speaking) would be running it. Not only that, but the vulnerability is six months old and should have long since been patched.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
"The world rotates to The Ultra-Heavy Beat!" - KMFDM

this thing hit hard! im on break right now, but im heading back to help my school get back online. great experience for me this semester. From the report i read at school it says that when this thing initially hit flooding sql port 1434 nearly 20% of the internet was affected.

*** This post was edited by CalvinJ23 on 1/25/2003. ***

Yeah, yeah, I've heard em all now.

Glad you got it back up and they got things worked out :).

Chuck, trying to be sarcastic.

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Don't those loser Chinese people have anything better to do?

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SFNE Freak, that's a rather stereotypical remark. Prepare to have your @$$ flamed off.

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*** This post was edited by Legend_n_Raven on 1/25/2003. ***

I heard it started from some guy in Japan or something, not China.

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I heard Hong Kong, but that's really neither here nor there.

I was affected too, and it was pretty bad. Jeff's right - the problem was completely avoidable if some server managers had taken the time to patch up their SQL.

I guess it takes a stupid occurance such as this to raise awareness to the problem. It shouldn't come to this, but I bet a lot more people will be a lot more vigilant now.

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It doesn't help that MS doesn't write installers for most of the SQL patches, and they're a pain to implement.

SFNE Freak: The only loser is you, racist little twit. Nothing will get you flamed and banned here faster. Jackass.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com - Sillynonsense.com
"The world rotates to The Ultra-Heavy Beat!" - KMFDM

Oh no.. the IT shop I work at here in Indy runs both SQl 7.0 and 2000 servers, hopefully everything will be ok Monday ..

Thanks Jeff

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Bye Bye, SFNE Freak. Learn to think before you speak, especially if it has to do with race.

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*** This post was edited by Peabody on 1/25/2003. ***

Jeff said:

SFNE Freak: The only loser is you, racist little twit. Nothing will get you flamed and banned here faster. Jackass.
....nothing really to add, except a Booyah! for Jeff....you'd think that people would *get it* by now...thankfully, MOST do...

Just wanted to let you know I'm mad at hackers and people who **** up the internet, not Chinese people. Prolly shoulda added a smilie. Oh well, I'm not missing out on anything.

Alex is right. You all let so much crap go on around this site like the thread completely humiliating people, yet you get all pissed over one comment that wasn't even that racial. I said it once, and I'll say it again. You're all assholes. Don't bother banning me because by the time that you have read this thread, I'll have already deleted my account for you. Have a nice day, assholes.

lemme fix the text for you (on your way out, that is)...."Wasn't even THAT racial"....yes, that's better...;)

CK I thought you left already......twice

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