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Build A Darknet To Capture Naughty Traffic

Posted by timothy on from the then-bend-it-to-your-evil-will dept.

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."

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  1. Luke by ralf1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Embrace the power of the darknet.

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    "Would you, could you, with a goat?" Dr Seuss
    1. Re:Luke by wo1verin3 · · Score: 5, Funny

      a collection of networks and other technologies that enable people to share files with little or no fear of detection?

      Naw... thats called the Internet.

      (I didn't say they shouldn't be afraid, but don't seme to be)

  2. Build a DorkNet by mcgroarty · · Score: 5, Funny
    CmdrTaco has built a DorkNet to capture naughty traffic.

    The comments that follow are time-stamped proof of what you were all doing during working hours...

  3. Already been done... by TWX · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought that California had the market cornered on this during the energy crisis...

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    Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
  4. Re:So hows this work now? by Richard_L_James · · Score: 5, Funny
    How do you track so called "naughty network traffic" when it goes to an IP with no services or servers?

    Easy by monitoring for traffic with the evil bit set which will either be originating from hell or going there :)