Alan Olsen writes:
At 10:46 AM 4/27/97 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 04:29 PM 4/26/97 -0500, harka@nycmetro.com wrote:
1. Does anybody know, what happened to the International PGP-Homepage (http//www.ifi.uio.no/PGP/)? It comes up as "Link not found" (?!) Also Staales personal page (http://www.ifi.uio.no/~staalesc/) seems to be gone...
It's there now.... must have been a glitch.
I have been noticing a problem contacting sites all over Northern and Central Europe.
I mirror selected crypto sites on a local system (for personal use, not general distribution or FTP) and have noticed that I cannot get a reliable mirror off of a couple of different sites. sable.ox.ac.uk, hacktic.nl, win.tue.nl and ftp.orpht.lu have all been unreliable/unreachable the last few days. I am not certain if this is a bandwidth issue or if someone is activly interfearing with sites dealing in Unix Security/Crypto software. (ftp.funet.fi has been tempermental, but reachable. Sites in other areas have been unaffected.)
Anyone have more data on this?
Yea, it's a problem with a Sprint customer who put out a bunch of bogus routes. Since friday I have been having problems connecting to various sites, not all of them security-related. According to an article in the Mercury News (info from more technically knowledgable sources welcome): A problem at an Internet service provider in Virginia triggered a massive logjam on the Internet Friday, but the trouble was cleared up later in the day, Sprint Corp. said. A customer of MAI Network Services, a McLean, Va.-based Internet provider that is among 900 companies that buy wholesale access to the Net from Sprint, entered 10,000 duplicate routes to the Internet backbone. That caused massive access delays for an undetermined number of users, a Sprint spokes man said. I wonder how long it'll be possible for unauthenticated/unapproved people to mess around with routers. Eventually the net will become so important (because so much business involves it) that a large outage will cost a lot of important people money. They'll demand that politicians "do something" to fix it. It's a safe bet that instead of doing what hackers/software engineers/IETF members would do to solve the problem, namely re-designing things so that a single error can't bring down the whole net, they'll just pass a law requiring that anyone who wants the 'enable' password to a cisco have first passed a government-approved "Internet Administrators Class" and gotten a license. -- Eric Murray ericm@lne.com Privacy through technology! Network security and encryption consulting. PGP keyid:E03F65E5