Ugly Network Making Life Harder

The last days a colleague of mine and me, we researched a very strange network behaviour. Now there is a blog article with in depth analysis. It’s very interesting. Detecting a faulty IDS, the hard way.

“This morning, a colleague of mine discovered a rather strange behaviour of our University’s network when trying to download a file with a size of about 80 MB using HTTP. Later that day, we identified a strange behavior of the network itself. We do not know whether it is a router bug or a filter. …” (read more on http://ad001.de/there-s-something-in-the-net.html)