[76683] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Anycast 101
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Mon Dec 20 14:10:22 2004
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "'John Kristoff'" <jtk@northwestern.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:09:44 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> John Kristoff
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 1:10 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Anycast 101
>
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:18:30 +0000
> Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> wrote:
>
> > there are some million-bot drone armies out there. with
> enough attackers
>
> I've heard that claim before, but I've yet to be convinced that those
> making it were doing more than speculating. It is not unreasonable to
> believe there are millions of bot drones, but that is not the same as
> an army under a single or even coordinated control structure. It is
> entirely possible to build armies of that size, but maintaining them
> over any length of time is probably quite difficult. I'd of course be
> interested to hear about any evidence to the contrary on or off list.
>
> John
I know I haven't seen any 1MM+ zombie armies out there and I'm
looking for them. Why spend all that time getting 1MM bots when you
only need 100K?
-M<
