Re: Sitefinder and DDoS

["Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb () gettcomm com>]

>  > Let's also assume someone sets up a popular webpage with malware
> >  HTML causing it, perhaps with a time delay, to issue rapid GETs to
> >  deliberately nonexistent domains.
>
> You don't even have to imagine that.
>
> Imagine a long-term port 80 Denial of Service (DoS) attack against a
> given website (using the website url rather than IP, which is not
> uncommon).
>
> Imagine the attacked domain administrator removes their DNS records
> from the registry to alleviate the attack.
>
> The attack is now directed at the Verisign Sitefinder service.
>
>     Adam

OUCH. Yet worse.