[Noisebridge-discuss] DDoS defense testing?

travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org
Thu Jun 17 23:32:35 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 03:14:52PM -0700, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> Moin Moin,
> 
> Other than renting out an illegitimate botnet, can anyone suggest some
> ways to test how well an infrastructure is able to defend against
> specific DDoS attacks?  Commonly it is discovered that some device in
> path of the target is unable to process certain payloads or heavy
> traffic, rather than the target itself.  If anyone has suggestions, it
> would be greatly appreciated.

I think that you could rent many servers on an Amazon cloud for a
short period of time, all running the same image.

Another way would be to log onto irc.2600.net's #2600 and antagonize
the people who appear to be frustrated, short-tempered, and more savvy
than average.  :-)
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