Re: Six PCs caused BigPond problems

2005-04-15 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
...which reminds me of the Spoofer Project: The Spoofer Project: State of IP Spoofing http://momo.lcs.mit.edu/spoofer/summary.php - ferg -- Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's ok. At least six more Telstra PCs will get compromised tomorrow. I don't know if they're doing uRPF

Six PCs caused BigPond problems

2005-04-14 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: Well configured laptops will not put that much pressure on the roots. A single misconfigured / broken recursive name server puts a lot more pressure on the roots than lots of well-configured laptops. I guess one could argue that the chance of

Re: Six PCs caused BigPond problems

2005-04-14 Thread Patrick W Gilmore
On Apr 15, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Sean Donelan wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: Well configured laptops will not put that much pressure on the roots. A single misconfigured / broken recursive name server puts a lot more pressure on the roots than lots of well-configured laptops. I

Re: Six PCs caused BigPond problems

2005-04-14 Thread Bill Stewart
On 4/14/05, Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,261744,39188319,00.htm Disconnecting six compromised personal computers on Tuesday evening eased the difficulties caused by bogus requests which clogged BigPond's domain name servers (DNS), slowing