Sapphire/Slammer worm: Impact on Internet performance  Olaf Kolkman, RIPE NCC


Using routine measurements from RIPE NCC's Test Traffic Measurement (TTM), 
Routing Information Service (RIS) and root-server monitoring projects we 
have measured the effect of the Sapphire/SQL slammer worm. Main conclusions 
are that 

 - 60% of the measurement relations in the test traffic mesh were
   unaffected, this is an indication that most harm was done at the
   network edges and not on the backbone.

 - 2 out of the 11 root-servers were affected, the root-server system
   did not suffer.