-----Original Message----- From: Florian Weimer [mailto:fw@deneb.enyo.de] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 2:01 PM To: Brett Cc: Hannigan, Martin; nanog list Subject: Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam scr eensaver site?
I think Lycos did not think this through enough. Their response is HUGE. They've essentially launched a Denial of Service on themselves.
The site that is being blackholed isn't on their network, AFAICS.
Actually, I think this is an ingenious PR campaign, but it probably doesn't work the way it was conceived, though I blieve that the net outcome for Lycos will be utterly positive.
Possibly. What will happen if the Lycos botnet gets hijacked? The conversations between the clients and the servers don't appear to be keyed. If a million clients got owned, it would be the equivalent of an electronic Bubonic Plague with no antidote. -M<