[CentOS] Defending againts simultanious attacks

Thu Feb 15 21:38:01 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

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