The impending DDoS storm

Wed Aug 13 17:46:45 UTC 2003

If the blaster cannot get a proper DNS response, it continues to
replicate via port 135... It then goes into a retry cycle and continues
to try to get a good DNS lookup.

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 12:25, Lloyd Taylor wrote:
> Does anyone have any notion of what the Blaster worm will do if the
> DNS lookup for "windowsupdate.com" returns NXDOMAIN?  If it handles this
> case by not sending any micreant love, might that not be the best way
> to mitigate the potential damage?
> 
> --Lloyd
> 
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Jack Bates wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:10:13 -0500
> > From: Jack Bates <jbates at brightok.net>
> > To: Jason Frisvold <friz at corp.ptd.net>
> > Cc: "Ingevaldson, Dan (ISS Atlanta)" <dsi at iss.net>,
> >      Stephen J. Wilcox <steve at telecomplete.co.uk>, nanog at merit.edu
> > Subject: Re: The impending DDoS storm
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 10:55, Ingevaldson, Dan (ISS Atlanta) wrote:
> > >-Does one DNS lookup on "windowsupdate.com" and then uses the IP
> > 
> > No, I wouldn't dream of setting windowsupdate.com to 127.0.0.1. Who in 
> > their right mind would do that?
> > 
> > -Jack
> > 
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