Re: OT: blaster-e, kimble.org, 127.0.0.1

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:10:43PM +0200, shrek-m 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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