[ale] New worm destablized Internet

[Jeff Hubbs]

It is possible that some of these ATM networks use VPN over Internet?  I
tried to use a Wachovia ATM today and it was very, very slow, sometimes
timing out on operations.

- Jeff

On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 21:10, James S. Cochrane wrote:
> I just spent four hours at work, none of our Unix servers were DIRECTLY 
> impacted, but the amount of broadcast traffic did impact our networks, and 
> convinced several of our HA systems that they were experiencing network 
> outages (mainly seemed to impact HP boxes, going to have to look into 
> whether there are problems with HP-UX 11.0's network stack).  So it might 
> not be impacting the ATM network directly, but could be impacting the 
> back-end networks where their servers are, preventing the ATM's from 
> connecting to verify account balances and funds available, etc...
> 
> James
> 
> At 05:13 PM 1/25/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >Thanks, I knew I was right about that little bit.  I just wonder how Bank 
> >Of America could
> >make a statement like that now.
> >
> >Adrin
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Jim
> > > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 4:59 PM
> > > To: ale at ale.org
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] New worm destablized Internet
> > >
> > >
> > > On Saturday 25 January 2003 04:46 pm, Adrin wrote:
> > > > Just heard on the news that at least one bank is having trouble with 
> > ATMs.
> > > > Kind of makes you wonder what kind of security they have on their system.
> > > > And I thought the ATM network was separate from Internet?
> > >
> > > All of the ATM's I know about are on a separate network from the Internet.
> > > Think about it. ATM's have been around a lot longer than the Internet. And
> > > why would anyone in their right mind hool ATM's up to the Internet. 
> > Remember:
> > > Banking is tightly regulated. And in spite of the popular perception that
> > > government can't do anything right, the ATM network, in my experience, is
> > > very secure and works very well.
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