while being in a middle of a spamming attack on my network i decided =
something radical,
something i havnt tryed before, hitting the bastards back, the target =
had ADSL with 8k/s upstream and 200k/s downstream.
admin glined me of course upon login in his server,=20
but then i discovered something mighty wierd,
if i enter an INVALID nickname like (3test) the server tells me =
something like, "3test change your nickname and try again",
whatever was my nickname it repeated it and told me to change it, if i =
would change to valid nickname my gline was activated and disconnected =
the session.
so i wrote a simple enough proggy that opened 500 sockets, in each =
connection it sends - 200 characters long nicknames!! - after 10-20 trys =
on each connection it fails to respond. after a couple of minutes i =
practicly brought the server to its knees.
of course i stopped right away and didnt even told the target server =
admin what was i doing. just left it like that.
is it even considered a bug or is there something to fix anyway?
hope youll make something of this info, sPD.
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