[62078] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What *are* they smoking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas Lund)
Mon Sep 15 21:21:03 2003
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 03:16:25 +0200 (CEST)
From: Tomas Lund <tlund@swip.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.91.0.1063672042.bygg@nic.cafax.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Johnny Eriksson wrote:
> idea for next virus: after reproducing itself, construct a random domain
> name ending in .net and ddos it at a low rate for a day or so. if the
> faked up domain is someones real one, you get a small number of packets
> to that domain. if a large number of domains resolve to the same ip,
> well, too bad for that ip...
>
> that might even be a virus a lot of people want to run.
while [ - ] ; do lynx -dump http://$RANDOM.THIS-QUERY-SHOULD-RETURN-NXDOMAIN.NET > /dev/null ; done
//tlund
