RE: Dig SCO?

[John.Airey () rnib org uk]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Bliss [mailto:james.bliss () comcast net]
> Sent: 03 February 2004 05:46
> To: Full-Disclosure Full-Disclosure
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Dig SCO?
>
>
> On Monday 02 February 2004 23:24, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> > On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:56:24 CST, James Bliss 
> <james.bliss () comcast net>  
> said:
> > > I have a question, has anyone documented the number, 
> volume, any metrics
> > > of the number of packets actually going to sco.com?  
> Possibly the source
> > > IPs as well to see if it is scattered or centralized on a 
> few boxes.
> > Gonna be somewhere between diddly and squat, considering they yanked
> > www.sco.com out of the DNS. :)
>
> I guess I should have been more precise, how many requests 
> were/are actually 
> being directed at sco.com by mydoom?  Yeah, I realized they 
> took it out of 
> the DNS, but I was wondering if it was:
> 1)  Because they actually were being flooded with requests
> 2)  It was a precaution, but no evidence that it happened
> 3)  If precaution, was it justified or merely for 'theatrics' 
>  (Of course it 
> could have always been both).

Netcraft have been monitoring www.sco.com for some time.
http://news.netcraft.com gives the latest details. They offer an interesting
story of the pragmatism of Microsoft, who have used Linux servers run by
Akamai in the past to keep their home page up. So much for a cancer on
intellectual property, eh?

SCO had set the TTL on their home page to 60 seconds (compared to the 3600
or one hour on www.microsoft.com). That itself would have generated even
more DNS traffic.

- 
John Airey, BSc (Jt Hons), CNA, RHCE
Internet systems support officer, ITCSD, Royal National Institute of the
Blind,
Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU,
Tel.: +44 (0) 1733 375299 Fax: +44 (0) 1733 370848 John.Airey () rnib org uk 

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