Re: [Full-disclosure] New DDoS attack vector

[minor float <minor.float@xxxxxxxxx>]

not really, because we have seen that they've used more than one smtp
server for this.

minor

On 20 May 2011 13:29, Balder <balder.theglorious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As far as i can tell you are going through a load of trouble to to
> create a mail server that will make  a bunch of DNS request.
>  * how is this a DDoS if it is just ne server (the mail server
> producing all the traffic)
>  * Why go to all this trouble when you could just do something like
> the following (replacing dig with something faster)
>    - while true ; do dig $(</dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c
> 10 ).example.com MX  ; done
>
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