[Xitami] "default.ida?"

Thomas J. Hruska xitami@lists.xitami.org
Mon, 06 Aug 2001 15:03:35 -0500


At 07:04 PM 8/6/01 +0100, you wrote:
>> Just to have a little fun I set up a page just for those unfortunate
souls who
>> do get infected. Instead of returning a 404 error, Xitami on my system
greets
>> them with a "nice" welcome. :-)
>
>I'd like to have a little fun with them by shutting their systems down and 
>prevent them from being such a nuisance.

Actually, I was tempted for a while to write a quickie PHP script (call it
default.ida and set up a Filter) that would launch a ping flood DoS attack
against any IP address that sent anything to default.ida.  The better side
of my conscience got to me before I did something like that :)


           Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight@crosswinds.net
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