[67008] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donovan Hill)
Fri Jan 30 19:22:29 2004
From: Donovan Hill <lists@lazyeyez.net>
To: "bcm" <bcm@inkline.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:18:05 -0800
In-Reply-To: <001401c3e776$8c34bed0$4263bacc@corp.ptd.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Friday 30 January 2004 01:18 pm, bcm wrote:
> Is anyone taking any special precautions given the potential for a sudden
> increase in aggregate packets per second across your networks come Sunday
> afternoon when the original Mydoom virus enters into its DOS phase?
>
> Does anyone know if the virus' assault will be slowed if it is unable to
> reach www.sco.com? I am hoping that if it cannot reach SCO's site that the
> HTTP GET command will be slow in returning, effectively reducing the volume
> of traffic a single PC is capable is generating. I am having a difficult
> time artificially forcing the virus to start its attack in a lab
> environment, so I am unable to confirm this.
>
> Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!
I think we should help out SCO by creating new wildcard entries into our DNS
servers that point *.sco.com to 127.0.0.1 as well as blackholing all SCO
SWIPd IP Address Space.
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We should also never remove the above.
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Donovan Hill
Electronics Engineering Technologist, CCNA
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