full-disclosure - DDoS on the 16th - Fail if no DNS resolution?

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Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20030813190851.018ab9a8@64.176.155.126>
From: jason at wittys.com (Jason Witty)
Subject: DDoS on the 16th - Fail if no DNS resolution?

All,

Has anyone tested this worm yet to see what it'll do if you set up an 
internal DNS entry for windowsupdate.com to point to a black hole address 
(127.0.0.1 for example) and then set the system clock to be August 16th 
(this Saturday)?

Based on the way it's obviously coded, I wouldn't think the authors would 
have built much error handling into it, but I haven't got source to read....

Thanks very much for any input.

Jason