22 Jul
2003
22 Jul
'03
9:50 p.m.
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:50:17 EDT, alex@yuriev.com said:
How many thousands of "polls" do you think a looking glass can handle simultaneously? I am all for the doomsday scenarios, but lets make them a little bit less sci-fi, shall we? How about "it would create valid looking OSPF packets with garbage in them?" or "create valid looking STP packets"
Why would thousands be needed? We already *know* that the bad guys are *well* acquainted with using P2P networks for controlling zombies. There's no reason a few strategic queries won't provide a good first approximation, which can then be distributed. Remember - it doesn't have to be perfect to cause a problem. ;) And no, there's no reason they can;t create poison OSPF or STP packets.