6 Aug
2001
6 Aug
'01
11:25 p.m.
Sometime today, Kishor Bhagwat wrote:
Well..finally a sensible article in the mainstream media... read about how the FBI became Microsoft's latest marketing agency...
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/taylor/article/0,9565,169678,00.html
But we're not talking the virtual version of HIV here. There was no malicious intent. The greatest effect so far noted in Code Red's last go-round two weeks ago was that the White House website, the ultimate target of its initial attacks, had to change its IP address. [snip]
Shouldn't the IP be looked up from DNS during an attack? Why not attack www.whitehouse.gov instead of a hard-coded IP address? Are lookups too expensive for a DoS attack?
Manish J.
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