[76691] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Anycast 101
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Mon Dec 20 15:49:15 2004
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:47:47 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gadi Evron [mailto:ge@linuxbox.org]
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 3:32 PM
> To: Bill Nash
> Cc: Hannigan, Martin; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Anycast 101
>
>
> > Botnets aren't new. They've been prototyped on various IRC
> networks for
> > years. It started with hordes of linked eggdrop bots for Death Star
> > style privmsg/notice flood attacks on single users (1998?
> 1999?). When
>
> For history's sake, most people name BO and netbus as the "original"
> remote control Trojan horses. Those that started all the mess.
My sentence was a typo. I mean they "aren't a new" phenomenon.
I agree with you on the rest.