RE: FBI / NIPC released a DDoSD detection tool?

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

I don't care where it purports to be from, for this kind of code, I will not
trust something [to not be a trojan] that I can not compile myself. This
policy applies to SSH, SSL, and other security related code. I am sure that
I am not the only one with this policy.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> Rodney Caston
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 8:45 AM
> To: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: FBI / NIPC released a DDoSD detection tool?
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> I'm not sure if this is news or not, but looking at
> http://www.fbi.gov/nipc/trinoo.htm - it seems the NIPC has released
> binaries, (no source code, the jerks), for tools to detect if a box has
> trin00, tribal flood net, tfn2k and some other DDoSD's on it.
>
> So far they have a sparc solaris, intel solaris, and x86 linux binary for
> download. While I am shocked to see a government agency writing
> potentially usefull code so quickly, I am dissappointed they didn't
> release their source code so it can be ported to say.. FreeBSD? .. AIX ..
> HP/UX ...  and so on...
>
>
> Rodney Caston
> Southwestern Bell
> Internet Services