Re: Collecting PTR names or IP addresses (Was: Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting))

2005-02-14 Thread Gadi Evron
PTR records are just as pointless as A records... in a secured DNS heirarchy, this is less of an issue We are not quite there yet, are we? since you have to spoof the entire delegation chain. so either trust the DNS (both forward and reverse) or not. For

Re: Collecting PTR names or IP addresses (Was: Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting))

2005-02-14 Thread Gadi Evron
Adam Jacob Muller wrote: Not possible with most modern IRCD's since they check forward and reverse dns. So for example if your address is: 1.2.3.4 and that resolves to: 1-2-3-4.dsl.verizon.net the ircd make sure that: 1-2-3-4.dsl.verizon.net resolves back to 1.2.3.4 it's a simple

Collecting PTR names or IP addresses (Was: Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting))

2005-02-11 Thread Ketil Froyn
http://www.albany.edu/~ja6447/hacked_bots8.txt Isn't it a good idea to collect the IP addresses rather than the ptr name? For instance, if I were an evil person in control of the ptr record of my own IP, I could easily make the name something like 1-2-3-4.dsl.verizon.net, and if you didn't

Re: Collecting PTR names or IP addresses (Was: Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting))

2005-02-11 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 03:45:52PM +, Ketil Froyn wrote: http://www.albany.edu/~ja6447/hacked_bots8.txt Isn't it a good idea to collect the IP addresses rather than the ptr name? For instance, if I were an evil person in control of the ptr record of my own IP, I could easily make

Re: Collecting PTR names or IP addresses (Was: Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting))

2005-02-11 Thread Adam Jacob Muller
Not possible with most modern IRCD's since they check forward and reverse dns. So for example if your address is: 1.2.3.4 and that resolves to: 1-2-3-4.dsl.verizon.net the ircd make sure that: 1-2-3-4.dsl.verizon.net resolves back to 1.2.3.4 it's a simple and elegant solution that basically

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-10 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Jim Popovitch wrote: I don't know how relevant this is to your question, but since it was part of the Subject here it goes: The botlist MUST have been interesting to a sizable number of NANOG'ers. At least 305 people (different IPs) downloaded the version that I

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-10 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:09:48AM -0800, william(at)elan.net wrote: However since there was shown enough of the interest from people on nanog@ to help in killing bots and knowing about it, may I suggest that people who are doing the tracking setup the following: For the DNSBLs that list

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-10 Thread Joe Abley
On 10 Feb 2005, at 10:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:09:48 PST, william(at)elan.net said: 2. After that the person should be able to register (entering full name and contact data and company he/she works) and can than get access to see entire list of ip addresses for

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-09 Thread Petri Helenius
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: Hi, you probably didnt think of this but it might not be a good idea to publish a list of 3000 computers than can be infected/taken over for further nastiness. Collecting that kind of list on any machine on the public internet takes only a day or so, so I don't think

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-09 Thread Gadi Evron
Bill Nash wrote: Various persons put forth some amount of effort to, graciously, give other operators a heads up to the ongoing/potential abuse of their networks, and you're concerned about topical relevance? Why aren't you, Aside to if botnet issues were discussed here, it would flood the list

RE: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-09 Thread Hannigan, Martin
-Original Message- From: Bill Nash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 3:31 AM To: Hannigan, Martin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: IRC Bot list (cross posting) On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote: [ snip ] Various persons put forth some

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-09 Thread J.D. Falk
On 02/09/05, Bill Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I'm not subscribed to either. Yet, I've no less than a /19 of space under my purview and I don't believe that publishing botnet lists in the manner that has been done is either off topic, or off charter. Some of us, as hosting providers

Re: [unisog] Collecting PTR names rather than IP addresses (Was: Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting))

2005-02-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:11:16 GMT, Ketil Froyn said: http://www.albany.edu/~ja6447/hacked_bots8.txt Isn't it a good idea to collect the IP addresses rather than the ptr name? For instance, if I were an evil person in control of the ptr record of my own IP, I could easily make the name

RE: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-09 Thread Bill Nash
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote: out botnet lists to NANOG, fine by me. I never said I can stop them. I just said I didn't want them as a subscriber. I understand that you don't know where these existing lists are. Look hard. If you suddenly care about bots enough in the last 24 hours

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-09 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:28 +0200 Gadi Evron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it a bad idea then? Because not all of us are Bill Nash who won't pwn a user. The same can easily be said for ANY public forum.

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-09 Thread Gadi Evron
Why is it a bad idea then? Because not all of us are Bill Nash who won't pwn a user. The same can easily be said for ANY public forum. Yes.

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-09 Thread Paul Vixie
There's TWO places that are doing this botnet stuff and the NANOG AUP discourages cross posting. I for one certainly don't want yet another list full of botnet stuff. And I'm not subscribed to either. Yet, I've no less than a /19 of space under my purview and I don't believe that

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-09 Thread Bill Nash
[ Edited and resent, the first appears to have vanished in transit ] I concede the point that operational tracking of botnets doesn't belong here, and I offer apologies to Martin, and the list in general, for not counting to ten before replying to his email. However, simply suppressing

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-09 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 22:04 -0800, Bill Nash wrote: Moving to a more productive stance for this thread: How many people have subbed in the past month? The past year? There's stuff in the FAQ about what's directly relevent to this particular list, but there are a million related sub-topics

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-08 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
Hi, you probably didnt think of this but it might not be a good idea to publish a list of 3000 computers than can be infected/taken over for further nastiness. if you can privately send me a list of Ip addresses (no need to sort) i can assist you to distribute this information securely? Steve

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-08 Thread Gadi Evron
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: Hi, you probably didnt think of this but it might not be a good idea to publish a list of 3000 computers than can be infected/taken over for further nastiness. if you can privately send me a list of Ip addresses (no need to sort) i can assist you to distribute this

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-08 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:13 -0500, J. Oquendo wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Justin Azoff wrote: I found an irc channel with 3000+ irc bots in it including a few hundred edu's. I have it posted at http://www.albany.edu/~ja6447/hacked_bots8.txt I started to sort them... Maybe I

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-08 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 23:01 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: Here's a different version of the above, host'ed, awk'ed and sorted. NOTE: several of those hostnanes did not resolve, so this list is not an exact duplicate. http://jimpop.net/stuff/nanog-list-botlist-2005-02-08.sorted If you grabed

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-08 Thread william(at)elan.net
Wasn't there supposed to be special mail list setup for botnet tracking? If so can we please move this thread there and not continue it on main nanog list... -- William Leibzon Elan Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-08 Thread Bill Nash
You don't mass an army if you're not about to use it. This situation can (very quickly) have operational relevance. Bringing it to light to a wider forum than special interest groups is a good idea. You'd certainly care more if it was pointed at you. - billn On Tue, 8 Feb 2005,

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-08 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Bill Nash wrote: You don't mass an army if you're not about to use it. 3000 is no longer that large, maybe a brigade but not an army... This situation can (very quickly) have operational relevance. If every botnet investigation is brought up at nanog, the list

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-08 Thread Scott Weeks
: Wasn't there supposed to be special mail list setup for botnet : tracking? : : If so can we please move this thread there and not continue it on main : nanog list... Why worry? It's a done deal... scott

RE: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-08 Thread Hannigan, Martin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Nash Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 12:37 AM To: william(at)elan.net Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting) You don't mass an army if you're not about to use

RE: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-08 Thread Bill Nash
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote: Bill, haven't we been here before? :) There's TWO places that are doing this botnet stuff and the NANOG AUP discourages cross posting. I for one certainly don't want yet another list full of botnet stuff. And I'm not subscribed to either. Yet, I've no