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Huh, this sounds kind of cool, I like the idea of there being a few QOTD servers dotted around the internet. Shame that the first I'm heading about it is it bei

Huh, this sounds kind of cool, I like the idea of there being a few QOTD servers dotted around the internet. Shame that the first I'm heading about it is it being abused to launch a DDOS.

msgodel 1y ago
You can always ssh to random hosts and read the netbanners. Of course nearly all of them are a long paragraph or two of legal jargon that more or less boils down to "fuck off."
- Retr0id 1y ago
  SSH banners come over TCP, requiring the 3-way handshake first, meaning you can't use it for traffic reflection (beyond the SYN-ACK itself).
  - msgodel 1y ago
    Right, in general unless you're going to put a lot of care into the state machine to deal with network congestion/abuse it's better to stick with TCP.
    - johncolanduoni 1y ago
      I was glad to see QUIC did a pretty good job of limiting its usefulness for reflection attacks. Hopefully we’ll see more uses of UDP move to it
- coolcoder613 1y ago
  While not a random server in the internet, here is the start of the ssh banner on my router (before the legal "fuck off") _______ __ __ __ |_ _|.-----.----.| |--.-----.|__|.----.-----.| |.-----.----. | | | -__| __|| | || || __| _ || || _ | _| |___| |_____|____||__|__|__|__||__||____|_____||__||_____|__| N E X T G E N E R A T I O N G A T E W A Y -------------------------------------------------------------------- NG GATEWAY SIGNATURE DRINK -------------------------------------------------------------------- * 1 oz Vodka Pour all ingredients into mixing * 1 oz Triple Sec tin with ice, strain into glass. * 1 oz Orange juice --------------------------------------------------------------------
  - Gormo 1y ago
    Including a cocktail recipe in the login banner has been a signature of OpenWRT for a long time. Looks like Technicolor came up with their own recipe for their OpenWRT distribution.
    - dikei 1y ago
      OpenWRT stopped doing this 10 years ago, as it was too much hassle to pick a drink that satisfy everyone.

Huh, this sounds kind of cool, I like the idea of there being a few QOTD servers dotted around the internet. Shame that the first I'm heading about it is it being abused to launch a DDOS.

msgodel 1y ago

You can always ssh to random hosts and read the netbanners. Of course nearly all of them are a long paragraph or two of legal jargon that more or less boils down to "fuck off."

Retr0id 1y ago
SSH banners come over TCP, requiring the 3-way handshake first, meaning you can't use it for traffic reflection (beyond the SYN-ACK itself).
- msgodel 1y ago
  Right, in general unless you're going to put a lot of care into the state machine to deal with network congestion/abuse it's better to stick with TCP.
  - johncolanduoni 1y ago
    I was glad to see QUIC did a pretty good job of limiting its usefulness for reflection attacks. Hopefully we’ll see more uses of UDP move to it
coolcoder613 1y ago
While not a random server in the internet, here is the start of the ssh banner on my router (before the legal "fuck off") _______ __ __ __ |_ _|.-----.----.| |--.-----.|__|.----.-----.| |.-----.----. | | | -__| __|| | || || __| _ || || _ | _| |___| |_____|____||__|__|__|__||__||____|_____||__||_____|__| N E X T G E N E R A T I O N G A T E W A Y -------------------------------------------------------------------- NG GATEWAY SIGNATURE DRINK -------------------------------------------------------------------- * 1 oz Vodka Pour all ingredients into mixing * 1 oz Triple Sec tin with ice, strain into glass. * 1 oz Orange juice --------------------------------------------------------------------
- Gormo 1y ago
  Including a cocktail recipe in the login banner has been a signature of OpenWRT for a long time. Looks like Technicolor came up with their own recipe for their OpenWRT distribution.
  - dikei 1y ago
    OpenWRT stopped doing this 10 years ago, as it was too much hassle to pick a drink that satisfy everyone.