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RE: Anycast 101
From: Bill Nash <billn () billn net>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:33:03 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
there are some million-bot drone armies out there. withenough attackersI know I haven't seen any 1MM+ zombie armies out there and I'm looking for them. Why spend all that time getting 1MM bots when you only need 100K?
Dormant reinforcements. Multiple operational floodnets in smaller cells. Rapid reconfiguration of a cell, cycling in new hosts, removing hosts that have sustained functional losses to reactive routing changes. Having those kinds of resources on hand allows an attacker to use a 'Captain Tripps'[1] style of attack to maintain a sustained assault on single, or even multiple targets.
As for why? I can only answer 'why not?' Zombies are being created in an automated fashion, as it is. If you've got the resources to handle 100k, it's not that hard to tap some of that volume to multiplex or scale your drone management.
- billn [1] Stephen King, 'The Stand'
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- RE: Anycast 101, (continued)
- RE: Anycast 101 Hannigan, Martin (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 vijay gill (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 Richard Irving (Dec 17)
- Re: Anycast 101 Paul Vixie (Dec 20)
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- RE: Anycast 101 Hannigan, Martin (Dec 17)
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- RE: Anycast 101 Bill Nash (Dec 20)
- RE: Anycast 101 Hannigan, Martin (Dec 20)
- Re: Anycast 101 Gadi Evron (Dec 20)
- RE: Anycast 101 Bill Nash (Dec 20)
- Re: Anycast 101 Gadi Evron (Dec 20)
- RE: Anycast 101 Hannigan, Martin (Dec 20)
- Re: Anycast 101 Paul Vixie (Dec 21)