Firewall or Network Issues?

[Brangwyn]

I've been doing a bit of work for a customer the last hour or so and there seems to be a few times where the PIX's or something seem to be very unresponsive for a few minutes and then come right again, anything known going on ?

On the status monitor right now "google.com" is showing orange so I'm assuming theres some issues in both directions?

[jetzkr8]

All my sites are effected

[Brangwyn]

I've been talking with Dave in a TT, basically its this Universal Cisco Exploit thats causing the problem, the firewalls been rebooted as they had bogged down completely and they seem to be running OK now. Last word from Dave was they're trying to get the IP's that are hitting the network with the exploit blocked upstream.

Things definitely seem more stable for me now, not always fast like usual but definitely improving.

[bigdave]

Looks like James has got it nailed down by routing traffic directly to the PIX into the network then blocking it there, basically creating a black hole for anything going to it. We seem very stable now.... YAY!

[bigdave]

Oh and Universal Cisco Exploit is a theory still, I'm not 100% on that one....

[Brangwyn]

Great stuff guys