Build A Darknet To Capture Naughty Traffic

DM_NeoFLeX writes "Have some routable Address Space lying around? You might want to build a DarkNet. The folks over at Team Cymru have outlined instructions for creating one with FreeBSD and as little as /32 routable space. From the article: 'A Darknet is a portion of routed, allocated IP space in which no active services or servers reside. These are 'dark' because there is, seemingly, nothing within these networks. Any packet that enters a Darknet is by its presence Aberrant.' Darknets can provide useful information for tracking the flow of naughty network traffic."

Comments

Re:Build a DorkNet

[pboulang]

Wait, was that dorknet comment referring to Slashdot? The very website we are reading right now? Hey, that's pretty ironic! What are the odds... He could have posted anywhere today and yet posted here. Crazy crazy world, huh?

</sarcasm>

Relax. Check out the high userID# and assume the poster is 15.

Re:Build a DorkNet

[pboulang]

and look at that im a "high" userID LOL

Not helping your cause. . . I suggest that when using a sentence with the word "respect" in it in the future you spellcheck it. Let's loot at the fact that you complain about profiling high UserIDs, then proceed to attack low UserIDs with a blanket statement. Some would call this profiling. I know you would cause you have a particular problem with that, and according to you, I do, too. Tie that in with your last sentence and I see an immature knee-jerk reaction. I'm not saying you aren't intelligent, simply not mature.

In regards to my original post, yeah, ok, it was a little off-putting. However, isn't it a typical situation for a smart 15 year old to accidentally explain a joke in an attempt to fit in, yet in the end standing out like a sore thumb? Would you not agree that it is more likely for a 15 year old to have a higher UserID than a low one... or did he join slashdot as a tweenager?

Re:Build a DorkNet

[zoloto]

/devils_advocate

why not.
the majority of icq users (at it's peak and wane) were all 8 or 9 + numbers. that's frigging lame to say "hey that's profiling" when for the majority of it is correct (like 95%)

so when the other 5% cry bloody murder b/c it sucks, then effectiveness goes down.

now with respect to that, I don't pay attention to UID at all with the exception to when people make comments like yours:

Yet another example of UserID Profiling. Low userID doesnt automaticaly get my respect. The typical low userID attitude is "I got here first so its mine! all mine! hahahahahah mine! Get the hell out of my slashdot you high userID scum" or something to that effect. But I still see tons of low usersIDs spewing crap/FUD.

and look at that im a "high" userID LOL

You sound offended and even threatendedb because of his comment, yet in that defensive remark you admit to either being insecure or flagrent need to lash out based on the fact that you are the majority of "new" users. Don't worry, I'm not excluding myself. Hell, I can't even remember what my UID is unless I look at it and say, well i know there's a 6 and a 7 in there somewhere.

Damn bro. mature a little before you spew shit no one cares about. You might be modded down for it.

Re:Build a DorkNet

[Trigulus]

What are you a fucking vulcan? Can you not sense sarcasm/humor?

I pitty you.

Re:IPv6

[CaptainTux]

I am *so* tired about reading how we don't need something because IPv6 will come in and raise our children, save our souls, and feed every man, woman, and child on the face of the planet. IPv6 *is* a good thing and it will solve many of our current security concerns. But - and this is the important point so read carefully - it isn't widely adopted yet and probably won't be for a number of years to come. So it doesn't *matter* if IPv6 would solve the problem now. We don't have it deployed well now so we use a stopgap solution until then.