full-disclosure - sco.com -> slow? :)

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From: Security at ReliableAnswers.com (Shawn K. Hall (RA/Security))
Subject: sco.com -> slow? :)

> According to this report in Money magazine, SCO issued a
> statement this morning saying the website was DoS'd
> "beyond its capacity"
> http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/01/technology/mydoom.reut/
>
> It also seems to me that if they simply removed the DNS
> entry, then www.caldera.com would be functioning.
> However, it's also down and has been since yesterday
> afternoon (when I first noticed sco.com failing).

What they should have done was just change the DNS record for
www.sco.com to "127.0.0.1" so that traffic wouldn't affect the rest of
the internet and setup a * 'A' record so requests for anything else
(like wwww.sco.com or sco.com) would still be able to get to their
site.

What kind of sysadmins do they have at these places?

Regards,

Shawn K. Hall
http://ReliableAnswers.com/

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