[79371] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: botted hosts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Apr 4 18:37:07 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 00:36:37 +0200
In-Reply-To: <42519626.8080702@he.iki.fi> (Petri Helenius's message of "Mon,
04 Apr 2005 22:31:50 +0300")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Petri Helenius:
>>There are at least 20 million and probably more compromised computers on
>>the Internet. Who has a plan to fix them?
>>
>>
> If the nanog readership is a few thousands, that's only ~5-10k for each
> of us. Piece of cake. And I still don't buy the number. I might buy 2M.
2M was a rather conservative estimate for Agobot/Phatbot infections
*alone* when it started to hit big. The number of distinct IP
addresses per day at the load-test servers was surprisingly high and
matched the published estimates (which must have looked like
fearmongering to most operators back then).
