MyDoom wave wipes out RoadRunner

[Sansavarous]

Yet another reason to run your own mail server... :D
I never even noticed any problems.

On Thursday 09 September 2004 07:02 pm, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> There was a big wave of MyDoom this morning, and RoadRunner mail servers
> stopped responding to SMTP (POP still worked).  RoadRunner responded by
> rebooting the servers, but the problem may have been with their routers,
> or possibly with their DNS (or they may have problems with these services
> as well).
>
> We experienced the same symptom as RR on our Epic Alliance mail server -
> but only when trying to reach it through RoadRunner - from other sites it
> responded fine.
>
> (Is this off topic?  I couldn't decide.  RoadRunner used to run Microsoft
> mail servers. Epic runs some sort of Sun product; I run various servers
> including Microsoft, RedHat, and Gentoo.)
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