North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: DOS attack from PANAMSAT
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 04:16:12PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 12:45:13 PDT, Clayton Fiske <[email protected]> said: > > > Don't forget 3) the machine compromised isn't capable of spoofing. > > In Win95/98/ME/NT, there is no raw socket functionality. I don't > > The fact that there is no raw socket *API* doesn't mean it's that much > more difficult to convince the device driver to send a packet that isn't > strictly kosher. Sure, but the idea that the kids doing the harvesting a) know how to do such a thing and b) care if the compromised machine is traced is a stretch in my mind. As a previous poster said, if a DDoS comes from enough different sources, it doesn't matter if they're really spoofed or not. -c
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