[CentOS] Defending againts simultanious attacks
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 21:38:01 UTC 2007
Drew Weaver wrote:
> I find it kind of odd that noone has come up with a 'RBL' for bots...
>
> ISPs could easily receive routes via BGP from "some trusted source" that
> has NULL routes for all of the 'infected' hosts which are attacking
> people..
>
> A few dozen honeypots and you would quickly have a large list of
> infected hosts in which to ignore entirely.
Vint Cerf recently estimated that one-fourth of the computers in the
world had such an infection... Are you prepared to handled a list
bigger than internet BGP routers already deal with?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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