[dns-operations] DDoS attack data collection

Duane Wessels wessels at dns-oarc.net
Wed Jan 28 02:00:28 UTC 2009



On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Stefan Schmidt wrote:

>> the shell script found on our web page:  https://www.dns-oarc.net/node/171
>
> I am running that script now, however i'd like to ask if you rely on the
> FROM=`hostname` value in any way, because without a --fqdn its just that
> on my machines.

Ah, I wasn't aware that some systems (linux only?) have the --fqdn
option.

Really you can set FROM to whatever you like.  I just use it to
reduce the chance of a filename collision, but its not a big deal
if we happen to lose a little data.

Duane W.



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