10 Dec
2005
10 Dec
'05
12:23 p.m.
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Edward B. Dreger wrote:
Let's use some hyperbole:
Say that the latest megaworm chucks out spam at speeds resembling SQL Slammer. The return-path specified is your email address. Millions of MXes send _you_ bogus DSNs "in good faith".
That's not exactly hyperbole. My antivirus-spew counter on my 9-user SMTP server rolled past 1M more than a year ago. Per incident, it isn't more than 1M; moire like ~50k, but that is still well beyond DDoS level. -- -- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>