Anycast 101

Mon Dec 20 19:09:44 UTC 2004

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> John Kristoff
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 1:10 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Anycast 101
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:18:30 +0000
> Paul Vixie <paul at vix.com> wrote:
> 
> > there are some million-bot drone armies out there.  with 
> enough attackers
> 
> I've heard that claim before, but I've yet to be convinced that those
> making it were doing more than speculating.  It is not unreasonable to
> believe there are millions of bot drones, but that is not the same as
> an army under a single or even coordinated control structure.  It is
> entirely possible to build armies of that size, but maintaining them
> over any length of time is probably quite difficult.  I'd of course be
> interested to hear about any evidence to the contrary on or off list.
> 
> John

I know I haven't seen any 1MM+ zombie armies out there and I'm
looking for them. Why spend all that time getting 1MM bots when you
only need 100K? 

-M<