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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: The impending DDoS storm
Dan Hollis wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Jason Frisvold wrote:If the blaster cannot get a proper DNS response, it continues to replicate via port 135... It then goes into a retry cycle and continues to try to get a good DNS lookup. has anyone tried tarpitting eg labrea to slow the worm? Oh yeah, LaBrea sticks 'em *REAL* good... LaBrea makes it look like the exploit worked, and it hangs up the worm trying to send the command to 4444. Thread counts get as high as 2546 (as of now) which is 10x the subnet block where the tarpit lives.LaBrea::Tarpit SOURCE IP's 15223 total threads captured, from these 109 IP addresses Had more like 30K threads until this morning when we had a power outage that outlived my small UPS so the numbers above are since ~9:30 EST this morning. Jeff
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