Re: FBI / NIPC released a DDoSD detection tool?

[Declan McCullagh <declan () wired com>]

Those binaries have been there for about a month, the same time as the Feds 
published the "trinoo" alert (about half a year late, but who's counting). 
This page has the date: http://www.fbi.gov/nipc/welcome.htm

Somehow I doubt that the NIPC wrote the code.

-Declan


At 10:44 2/10/2000 -0600, Rodney Caston wrote:

> 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