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RE: Anycast 101
From: Bill Nash <billn () billn net>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:17:49 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
Look at how the discussions surrounding SPAM have evolved. It went from "damn abusers", to "damn software", to "where's the money coming from?". The BotNet problem has already evolved to "where's the money". Botnets are a new phenomenon. [ Gadi!?]
Botnets aren't new. They've been prototyped on various IRC networks for years. It started with hordes of linked eggdrop bots for Death Star style privmsg/notice flood attacks on single users (1998? 1999?). When the response was to hunt down and remove the bots in a mass fashion (I hacked up one of the early tools for doing it), it turned into submarine botnets on private servers (or not connected to IRC at all) doing DDoS attacks against targetted IP addresses. These days, it's virally injected remote controls and soon, sharks with frickin laser beams.
- billn
Current thread:
- Re: Anycast 101, (continued)
- Re: Anycast 101 Paul Vixie (Dec 20)
- Re: Anycast 101 bmanning (Dec 20)
- Re: Anycast 101 Paul Vixie (Dec 20)
- Re: Anycast 101 bmanning (Dec 20)
- Re: Anycast 101 bmanning (Dec 20)
- Re: Anycast 101 John Kristoff (Dec 20)
- how many zombies? [was: Re: Anycast 101] Gadi Evron (Dec 20)
- Re: Anycast 101 Paul Vixie (Dec 20)
- RE: Anycast 101 Hannigan, Martin (Dec 20)
- RE: Anycast 101 Bill Nash (Dec 20)
- RE: Anycast 101 Hannigan, Martin (Dec 20)
- Re: Anycast 101 Gadi Evron (Dec 20)
- RE: Anycast 101 Bill Nash (Dec 20)
- Re: Anycast 101 Gadi Evron (Dec 20)
- RE: Anycast 101 Hannigan, Martin (Dec 20)
- Re: Anycast 101 Paul Vixie (Dec 21)