Re: OT: Routers with highest uptime

[Justin Streiner via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Lots of fun from the Slammer/Nimda days...   Taking affected devices online
was agonizingly slow on networks that were saturated and in many cases at
that time had routers that used software-based forwarding.

Thank you
jms

On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 3:50 PM Gary Sparkes via NANOG <
nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:

> 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 <nanog () lists nanog org>
> 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?
>
> --
> kind regards
> Marco
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