[thelist] Evil acts. How to?
Frank
lists at frankmarion.com
Sun Jul 13 08:12:27 CDT 2003
As part of my testing environment, I have a SMTP/POP server. I also
sometimes have up to 20 idiots a day trying to use my server as an open
relay to spam. Tracing these people always leads me back to China, or
Korea, or Russia, or wherever. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of my firewall
grinding away. I'm tired of watching "connection refused" scroll away in my
logs. These people seem to think that "connection refused" means "hammer
away as hard as my machine can". This is simply my personal development
machine.
What evil acts can I commit upon these people until such time as they stop?
What "hacker software (kiddy scripts?)" do I need to get to create a DOS?
Or send the Ping Of Death (love the sound of that one!). What are my
choices in terms of evil acts to commit, and what do/get I need to do to
commit them?
In short, ignoring, and communicating with these people is leading me
nowhere, what actions can I take to make them take notice with the least
amount of energy on my part? Feel free to contact me off list. *
<tip type="Server, Free Software" author="Frank Marion">
Want to run your own SMTP/POP server? Want to liberate yourself from an
ISP? Try Mercury. <http://www.pmail.com/> You might also like the high
quality email client known as Pegasus.
Mercury combined with a dyndns.com account <http://www.dyndns.org/> (This
service gives you "a domain name" to go with your dynamic IP) makes for a
great, nearly free internet account that lets you do all your testing
without actually needing to bother other people's machines.
</tip>
*This is an actual honest to goodness request (on top of being a rant).
Thanks for listening :)
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