RE: OT: Routers with highest uptime

Gary Sparkes via NANOG <[email protected]>
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Not much beyond what remains posted around/online, but I remember a decent solid 2-days of reporting in major news networks about impacts from it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Slammer

There's some interesting links/reads in there. The BBC one is definitely a frozen in time throwback, that's for sure. 

Was enough to take countries offline at the time, that's for sure. BBC link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2693925.stm) explicitly calls out south korea. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Marco Moock via NANOG <[email protected]> 
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2026 3:11 PM
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Subject: Re: OT: Routers with highest uptime

Am 25.02.2026 um 19:46:35 Uhr schrieb Gary Sparkes via NANOG:

> Even 23 years ago, not quite the flex.
> 
> Remember, SQL Slammer that took out / degraded large chunks of the 
> internet?
> 
> That vulnerability had been fixed in a patch released 6 months prior 
> to that incident.

Is there any public info about that and how far the impact was?

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