I think that is a good idea! I do plan on making a GUI frontend for rain in either QT or GTK+. I will be releasing a new version of rain very soon which will provide alot of enchancements and a few bug fixes. Thank you all for your feedback! -Michael mysticat_private On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, "Dan Kaminsky" wrote: > Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 06:19:39 -0700 > To: <mysticat_private>, <vuln-devat_private> > From: "Dan Kaminsky" <dankaminat_private> > Subject: Re: rain > > > > Hello. Someone recommended I post this program to you. I hope you find > it > > interesting: > > > > > > http://www.tenebrous.com/rain/ > > This is effectively a tool for sending various types of semi-random > floods > towards an IP destination. It seems more suited to stack testing than > DoS, > though(its floods are reasonably filterable). > > This brings up an interesting question: Perhaps there should be a > reasonable toolkit for testing network services--something like > "netfuzz", > that would send various patterns at different load levels heuristically > seeking those patterns that might cause instabilities. > > *So* many daemons are released that can't handle even minor amounts of > noise > that this might actually be a useful general purpose tool *before* > releasing > code to test your daemons against. Particularly if one could compile > their > clients against a randomizing fuzz library(i.e. so only an individual > argument on a request would be suddenly sent out of bounds). > > Perhaps no library would be needed at all...think, "noisy netcat" :-) > > Thoughts? > > Yours Truly, > > Dan Kaminsky, CISSP > http://www.doxpara.com > >
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