On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 09:32:54PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:48:47AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:40:51AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Yes, it receives data from the network and throws it away. But I don't see > how this figures into your example. If you can give me an scenario where > this service would allow a malicious remote user to DoS anything other than > the discard service itself, that would be interesting. Otherwise, I'm > inclined to say that it's quite harmless (and indeed useful).
Hmm, am I the only one that thinks dd if=/dev/zero | nc victim discard is a bad thing, in an environment where the victim is paying cents per meg for inbound traffic? I'm no so much talking about DoSing anything, but causing financial damage. Andrew
