[Gllug] Net outages caused by worm possibly

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Tethys wrote:

> I'm still boggled that this ever happened in the first place. I mean,
> sure, anyone can have buggy programs -- it happens to us all, and to
> their credit, even Microsoft had fixed this one long ago. But who in
> their right mind would have an SQL server directly connected to the
> net anyway?

You'd be amazed at the number of emails I receive demanding that I allow 
users to access their MySQL databases from any Internet connection.

Naturally 3306 is firewall protected on our servers.

Jason Clifford 
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