Re: Has anyone heard of this?

[Michael T. Babcock]

> Seems like security through obscurity revamped.  I agree that the dns
> servers would have a hard time keeping up and would imply also that the
> s'kiddies launching these attacks are launching against specific IPs and
> not resolvable domain names.

Very much so -- if they can write a program that generates legitimate
requests, a good programmer can create one as well.  All they have to do
is get a copy of the software and reverse engineer how it works, then write
a library of functions to allow current [ha/cra]cking software to attack
these
hosts.
--
Michael T. Babcock
CTO, FibreSpeed

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