Bots don't honor 301 :(

[VirginSnow at vfemail.net]

> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:27:27 -0500
> From: David Berube <djberube at berubeconsulting.com>

> > If you can show me crackbots that
> > autonomously coordinate their attacks like [insert random potentially offensive analogy here],
> > then there's a chance you may be right about this.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet

This article referrs to DDoS attacks, but that's organizing payload,
not organizing propagation.  What I was referring to was having bots
cooperate to partition and delegate portions of their host space.  For
exmaple, maybe all the bots would agree only to probe and compromise
IP addresses whose last octet is the same as their own IP.  That would
create 254 separate address spaces, and decrease the effectiveness of
any one tarpit by a factor of 254.  However, it would still only take
254 tarpits to cut the number of compromised hosts (on average) in
half.

> >>> Where can one find/contact these "network abuse reporting systems"?
> >> http://www.google.com/search?q=network+abuse+reporting
> > 
> > Queries like that typically return lots of forum posts in which
> > windows users get a lot of stupid answers to a lot of stupid
> > questions.  I'd hoped asking that question here would have resulted in
> > a smarter answer.
> 
> Try whois.

Yeah, that's typically how the smart folk answered the question.
Unfortunately, whois isn't integrated, which makes it hard to automate
abuse reporting. :(