[27240] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: FBI / NIPC released a DDoSD detection tool?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Tucker)
Thu Feb 10 13:37:52 2000
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:26:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Ryan Tucker <rtucker@netacc.net>
To: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: Rodney Caston <largo@megatokyo.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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Especially considering it ended up sucking all of the memory on my machine
before dying with a bus error and taking half of the processes with it.
Oh, the irony ;-) -rt
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Ryan Tucker <rtucker@netacc.net> Unix Systems Administrator
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>
> I don't care where it purports to be from, for this kind of code, I will not
> trust something [to not be a trojan] that I can not compile myself. This
> policy applies to SSH, SSL, and other security related code. I am sure that
> I am not the only one with this policy.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> > Rodney Caston
> > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 8:45 AM
> > To: nanog@merit.edu
> > Subject: FBI / NIPC released a DDoSD detection tool?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>
