Tim: >> /me wonders if you could create a firewall rule that redirected them to >> connect to their own IP, after a while, so that they attack themselves. Manuel Arostegui Ramirez: > Hehe, that reminds me what I was working as a sysadmin some years ago and we > did exactly what you're talking about against a box outside our network that > was trying to DoS us, was really funny :-) I was told a tale of some clever-clogs on IRC proclaiming that they could take anybody off the air, any time that they wanted. So someone in the channel told them, "my IP is 127.0.0.1, try your hardest." 'twas amusing to all others in the channel, watching them repeatedly disappear. ;-) I dare say that it'd be funny to redirect one set of crackers onto another, if you happened to find out the addresses of two independent mobs at the same time. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
