Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:52:15 -0800 From: The Mad Scientist <madscientist@thegrid.net> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Continual DNS requests from mysterious IP Message-ID: <4.1.20000130004931.00954ac0@mail.thegrid.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000129173418.03dc4960@localhost> References: <200001290216.SAA34537@floozy.zytek.com>
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At 05:36 PM 1/29/00 -0700, you wrote: >My guess is that your machine is being used in a distributed DoS >attack against AOL. The perpetrator is probably querying many >servers throughout the Net, hoping that they in turn will >swamp AOL. By providing lots of bogus host names that do not >repeat, they're ensuring that a fresh request is generated every >time. > >I personally would block the buggers and then contact AOL. > >--Brett It could also be those nifty AOL Instant Messengers trying to do some email checking. -Dean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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