On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:54:03AM -0600, Jerry Pasker wrote:
The big difference between Lycos Europe, and a script kiddie with zombies is that Lycos is mature enough to use restraint and not knock down websites with brute force.
I have no idea whether they're mature enough. They're most certainly not knowledgeable enough, as they appear to have failed to account for: - zombie'd end-user systems (some of which will no doubt download this DoS tool) - web sites hosted on zombies (and serving requests sent to them either by rapidly-updating DNS or redirectors) - throwaway domains - hijacked ASNs among other standard spammer tricks, all of which can be used to deflect the attack or redirect it against third parties. But beyond that: this is a silly tactic. Spammers have as much [free, to them] bandwidth as they want. They're trying to drown people who "own" the ocean. ---Rsk