[tech] hydra

[warrick at lostris.wyvern.com.au]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:56:14AM +0800, David Basden wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:45:21AM +0800, warrick at lostris.wyvern.com.au wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:42:56AM +0800, Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> > > Bryden Quirk wrote on Thu August 30, at 20:08 +0800:
> > > > > Bryden was running a DNS bomb.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Bryden - stop it or we will tell on you.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Cool that killed hydra ? :)
> > > > 
> > > > I was attepting to catoluge the .com.au namespace
> > > > (or more to the point find out how far i chould get before the MSD's
> > > > became just to mamoth to wait for
> > 
> > You could just ask for the zone file, I mean, I am one of the .com.au
> > secondary admins. :) Or something :) killing hyrda like that, why it
> > reminds me of the old days, when we would fork 1000's of mpg123
> > processes in for loops so we could get our song played next rather
> > than djinn's music preference :)
> 
> I thought that it wasn't possible to do zone transfers of the com.au.
> zone anymore?

It's not :) unless you are a authorised secondary. Well thats the way
iiNet's ns.iinet.net.au (*.au secondary server) is set up. And I believe
that is the same for all the *.au servers.

[root at ns secondary]# ls -al
total 35044
drwxr-xr-x    2 named    named        4096 Aug 31 11:40 .
drwxr-sr-x    4 named    named        4096 Aug 31 12:40 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 named    named      207801 Aug 31 11:29 asn.au
-rw-r--r--    1 named    named        1266 Aug 31 11:56 aunic.net
-rw-r--r--    1 named    named    32016555 Aug 31 11:04 com.au
-rw-r--r--    1 named    named      703530 Aug 31 12:12 edu.au
-rw-r--r--    1 named    named      308498 Aug 31 12:30 gov.au
-rw-r--r--    1 named    named     1915096 Aug 31 12:11 net.au
-rw-r--r--    1 named    named      652390 Aug 31 11:12 org.au
[root at ns secondary]#

Bryden had a loooong way to go :) 

Seeya,
Warrick