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On Tue, 30 May 2006, Craig Holmes wrote: > 1) This much traffic could cause the IRC server to lag to desync (on legacy > IRC servers, anyway) > 2) Poorly configured bots would hammer the IRC port day and night (times > 10,000) > 3) A well-designed drone could use a dynamic dns service to update and use a > different server. The then angry farmer would DDoS the crap out of the public > IRC server he was just k-lined from. i'm running an irc server on one of the large networks. what you say isn't true (anymore) - fairly recent ircd software includes features against hammering clients and the like. besides, there are quite a lot of packages out there to monitor ircd and auto k-line/install acl against drones or hammer clients. for the ddos, as soon as you run a public irc server you should be prepared to get hit. that's a fact. wether or not you k-line drones doesn't matter a lot. if not for a k-line, they will ddos you because someone on your server insulted them or whatever. there's no excuse for not removing botnets on sight, imo. jm2c :) jakob _______________________________________________ To report a botnet PRIVATELY please email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All list and server information are public and available to law enforcement upon request. http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets
