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When routers go bad

Posted May 24, 2007 3:25 UTC (Thu) by miah (guest, #639)
Parent article: When routers go bad

A good example of the wrong that can happen with bad firmware is the Netgear NTP flaw that flooded the University of Wisconsin's NTP server.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/

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When routers go bad

Posted May 27, 2007 5:17 UTC (Sun) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178) [Link]

thanks, that was a good read.

usually i find anything involving networking to be a good cure for insomnia, but for some strange reason i love these kinds of blow by blow case studies.