Monumentous task of making a list of all DDoS Zombies.

Marshall Eubanks tme at multicasttech.com
Sat Feb 7 17:37:55 UTC 2004


It need be neither momentous nor  monumental -

Just say it's 0.0.0.0 / 0 with some occasional exceptions.

Regards
Marshall Eubanks

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:56:28 -0500
 "Wayne Gustavus (nanog)" <nanog at wgustavus.com> wrote:
> This would essentially be impossible and not a good idea.  Large volumes of
> hosts/zombies involved in such attacks originate from residential cable/dsl
> subscribers.  This user base primarily uses dynamically assigned IP space.
> Hence, the IP of tonight's attacker could be the IP of tomorrow's legitimate
> user. 
>  
> This is the same reason that it is imperative that any complaints sent to
> ISPs providing such services MUST have a time stamp (with timezone) along
> with other information relative to the attack/abuse.  This is the only way
> the ISPs can relate the IP with the actual enduser in order to contact them
> for remediation.
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> ___________________________________________________________
> Wayne Gustavus, CCIE #7426                       
> Operations Engineering                   
> Verizon Internet Services                      
> ___________________________________________________________ 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of Drew
> Weaver
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 4:15 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Monumentous task of making a list of all DDoS Zombies.
> 
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> 
>             Is there a list maintained anywhere of all hosts that have been
> identified as a DDoS zombie? Or attack box? We got hit with an attack from
> more than 60 IPs last night and I'd like to add them to any list that anyone
> has started.
> 
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> Thanks,
> 
> -Drew
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