Neil Gardner wrote:
Hi guys, I am testing a firewall here at work with a DHCP spoofing ADSL router and I wanted to check the integrity of the reporting with the attacks it can recognise... I don't really want to spend too much work time jumping into hacky IRC channels and annoying people to generate some attack traffic (plus I don't want to be attacked for too long :-) so I thought I'd ask here to see if anyone knows of any web based attack generators or could indulge me and hit me with a few things (short of classic DOS - I'm testing the firewall, not my ADSL line :-)
Not recommended, Neil... you might get far more than you bargained for. Check out Tikiri Wicks and Richard Cox's posts. Some idiot might fire up a few thousand Trojaned Windows boxes and point them in your general direction and keep the running for several days. Otherwise, IRC seems the best, but you could also try to complain to the more aggressive spammers' hosting services. -- Juha