The impending DDoS storm

Kevin Houle kjh at cert.org
Thu Aug 14 15:41:19 UTC 2003


--On Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:24:53 AM -0400 Josh Fleishman 
<flyman2 at corp.earthlink.net> wrote:

> Has anyone determined a method for triggering the DOS attack manually?
> We've attempted this by changing an infected machine's clock, however it
> did not work on our test box.  If anyone has triggered the attack, do
> you have a copy of the sniffed data stream?

The code looks at the clock once at startup. Once the code is running,
it does not appear to recheck the clock. Set your clock prior to running
the test.

Kevin




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