OT: blaster-e, kimble.org, 127.0.0.1
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Aug 28 22:16:38 UTC 2003
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:10:43PM +0200, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> i am a little bit confused.
> i get always "127.0.0.1" with host, dig, nslookup for "kimble.org"
> $ host kimble.org <caching-nameserver_or_different_nameservers>
> kimble.org has address 127.0.0.1
> do you get the same result?
[snip]
> * The target for the Distributed Denial-of-Service attack has been
> changed to kimble.org
There's no mystery here. The people who own kimble.org don't want to be
DoS'ed, so they changed the target name to point at local host, so that each
infected machine only attacks itself.
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