where to go to understand DDoS attack vector

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Tue Aug 26 16:02:35 UTC 2014


On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:57:27 +0700, Roland Dobbins said:
>.  The 'mailto:' bit is interesting; it might work sort of like SNMP reflection/amplificati

Nope.  It's a red herring, somebody's MUA trying to get *far* too clever with
the fact that there's a literal ".... at .8" in the ascii dump part of the packet.

Took me a few seconds to figure it out too, am a tad low on caffeine today. :)

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