Re: Re: rain

[Michael <mystic () tenebrous com>]

I think that is a good idea! 

I do plan on making a GUI frontend for rain in either QT or GTK+.

I will be releasing a new version of rain very soon which will provide alot
of enchancements and a few bug fixes.

Thank you all for your feedback!

-Michael
mystic () tenebrous com


On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, "Dan Kaminsky" wrote:
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 06:19:39 -0700
> To: <mystic () tenebrous com>, <vuln-dev () securityfocus com>
> From: "Dan Kaminsky" <dankamin () cisco com>
> Subject: Re: rain
>
>
> > Hello. Someone recommended I post this program to you. I hope you find
> it
> > interesting:
> >
> >
> > http://www.tenebrous.com/rain/
>
> This is effectively a tool for sending various types of semi-random
> floods
> towards an IP destination.  It seems more suited to stack testing than
> DoS,
> though(its floods are reasonably filterable).
>
> This brings up an interesting question:  Perhaps there should be a
> reasonable toolkit for testing network services--something like
> "netfuzz",
> that would send various patterns at different load levels heuristically
> seeking those patterns that might cause instabilities.
>
> *So* many daemons are released that can't handle even minor amounts of
> noise
> that this might actually be a useful general purpose tool *before*
> releasing
> code to test your daemons against.  Particularly if one could compile
> their
> clients against a randomizing fuzz library(i.e. so only an individual
> argument on a request would be suddenly sent out of bounds).
>
> Perhaps no library would be needed at all...think, "noisy netcat" :-)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Yours Truly,
>
>     Dan Kaminsky, CISSP
>     http://www.doxpara.com