-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of John Kristoff Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 1:10 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Anycast 101
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:18:30 +0000 Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> wrote:
there are some million-bot drone armies out there. with enough attackers
I've heard that claim before, but I've yet to be convinced that those making it were doing more than speculating. It is not unreasonable to believe there are millions of bot drones, but that is not the same as an army under a single or even coordinated control structure. It is entirely possible to build armies of that size, but maintaining them over any length of time is probably quite difficult. I'd of course be interested to hear about any evidence to the contrary on or off list.
John
I know I haven't seen any 1MM+ zombie armies out there and I'm looking for them. Why spend all that time getting 1MM bots when you only need 100K? -M<
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
there are some million-bot drone armies out there. with enough attackers
I know I haven't seen any 1MM+ zombie armies out there and I'm looking for them. Why spend all that time getting 1MM bots when you only need 100K?
Dormant reinforcements. Multiple operational floodnets in smaller cells. Rapid reconfiguration of a cell, cycling in new hosts, removing hosts that have sustained functional losses to reactive routing changes. Having those kinds of resources on hand allows an attacker to use a 'Captain Tripps'[1] style of attack to maintain a sustained assault on single, or even multiple targets. As for why? I can only answer 'why not?' Zombies are being created in an automated fashion, as it is. If you've got the resources to handle 100k, it's not that hard to tap some of that volume to multiplex or scale your drone management. - billn [1] Stephen King, 'The Stand'
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