Why does there need to be blame? Diagnose the problem, fix the problem, move on with life. Someone made a mistake, learn from it, move on.
-- Joel Esler joel.es...@me.com http://www.joelesler.net On Tuesday, February 23, 2010, at 05:13PM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: >On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:27:21 -1000, Nate Itkin said: >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 02:46:54PM -0500, Paul Stewart wrote: >> > The problem is that a user on this box appears to be launching high >> > traffic DOS attacks from it towards other sites. >> >> It's possible the user inadvertently enabled the same exploit after you >> rebuilt the system. I suggest caution with assigning culpability. > >Or the gold image used to rebuild was itself vulnerable. It happens a lot >more often than you think. I'd suggest *lots* of caution with assigning >culpability. ;) > > >
