full-disclosure - Windows Dcom Worm planned DDoS

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Message-ID: <001c01c360c6$1bc9b1a0$0101a8c0@gfserver>
From: andrewt at nmh.co.za (Andrew Thomas)
Subject: Windows Dcom Worm planned DDoS

> From: Chris Eagle [mailto:cseagle@...shift.com] 
> Sent: 12 August 2003 01:31
> Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Windows Dcom Worm planned DDoS
> 
> 
> The IP is not hard coded.  It does a lookup on "windowsupdate.com"

Allowing the option for corporates and/or isp's to dns poison that
to resolve to 127.0.0.1, or even dns race with tools like team teso's
if one doesn't use internal/cacheing NS.

Might save some traffic on 15 August. Alternative, route all traffic
to the resolved IP addresses to /dev/null, but with the above, the
traffic shouldn't even leave the machine in question.

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