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Article #716Re: Resolving IP numbers?
From: Andrew Ryan Chang
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 00:00
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Brian Hampson <brian@asl-labs.bc.ca> wrote: >: I don't understand why knowing the names of a lot of machines >: makes for any more usefulness than knowing just one or two. > >Each host has potential weaknesses depending on OS etc, and if the attack >is spread out, it is less likely to be noticed than if it were >concentrated on one system Question: is it the same amount of difficulty to find IP addresses in a foreign domain as it is to find their machine names? Because if it's easier to get the numbers, I really don't see why you need to get the names at all for an attack. >: -- >: : That's because you've never used Pico, the editor that lets you think of >: : something else. >: Yes, such as: >: ``Soon as I get out of this thing, I'm going back to cat'' > >Not sure who this was attributed to, I believe it was part of your sig? Yeah, I pulled it off Usenet somewhere. -- "Ed is the standard text editor." When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their "edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 114424,a70275e8decfce52 X-Google-Attributes: gid114424,public From: archang@sfu.ca (Andrew Ryan Chang) Subject: Re: Resolving IP numbers? Date: 1996/07/04 Message-ID: <4rh0fi$7ea@morgoth.sfu.ca> X-Deja-AN: 163703342 x-pgp-fingerprint: DB 5E D1 86 62 B8 58 88 54 54 49 9F 8A BD 29 91 x-pgp-key: Key on request. references: <4r48lp$dvt@berlin.infomatch.com> <D19960703T36829 <4res3h$8iu@morgoth.sfu.ca> <D19960703T62611X4433@grizzly.asl-labs.bc.ca> organization: Simon Fraser University newsgroups: bc.unix