Sapphire/Slammer Worm Impact on Internet Performance
RIPE/NCC: Sapphire/Slammer Worm
Impact on Internet Performance
“Looking at all data we can conclude that the Internet did not come to a global “meltdown” even though some individual sites were highly affected by this worm. Sixty percent of the measured relations do not show any sign of deterioration. This indicates most backbone links were fine and the problems were localized in edge sites or their immediate upstream provider. Also, eleven of the thirteen root servers remained accessible.”
