TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Hosting Content on Zombie Computer Networks

Re: Hosting Content on Zombie Computer Networks

Robert Bonomi (bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com)
Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:46:00 -0000

In article <telecom24.117.8@telecom-digest.org>, Gareth Morrissey
<garethmorrissey@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Would it be possible to host content on zombie computer networks (like
> those used to send out spam)?

> Is anybody doing this currently?

Yes, and yes. Sometimes actual 'hosting' is on the zombie, sometimes just
a 'transparent proxy' that forwards to the "real" content holder.

You can even find nameservers running on zombied machines.

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