[123869] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: anti-ddos test solutions ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles N Wyble)
Wed Mar 17 14:15:59 2010
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:15:36 -0700
From: Charles N Wyble <charles@knownelement.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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bit gossip wrote:
> Nessus is a vulnerability scanner:
>
> http://www.nessus.org/nessus/
>
> Ixia provides a full Nessus implementation in one of its platform.
>
Well these days I would use http://www.openvas.org and
http://www.metasploit.org
for vulnerability scanning and analysis.
However that wouldn't be a DDoS, but could certainly lead to DOS.