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1 CraigBox 1 Some people wrote a virus called CodeRed, that attacked insecure MicrosoftCorporation InternetInformationServer web server. They got all the web serverss they hacked to run a piece of code which was scheduled to cause the web server to start flooding 210.55.204.208, the InternetProtocol address for the White House (www.whitehouse.gov) at a certain time.
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3 As soon as the [CERT] people pulled the virus to bits, and found out, what did www.whitehouse.gov do? Change their IP address to 210.55.204.209, updated their [DNS] entry to match, and lo and behold - any machines that spammed 210.55.204.208 had their packets drop into the BitBucket.
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5 What the Code Red writers SHOULD have done was used "www.whitehouse.gov", which they couldn't have changed unless they wanted to lose all their visitors.
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7 By the way, don't accidentally confuse www.whitehouse.gov with www.whitehouse.com, unless you're over the age of sexual consent.
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3 zcat(1) 9 whitehouse.gov - The Whitehouse in Washington, DC.
10 whitehouse.net - an amusing parody site.
11 whitehouse.org - another amusing parody site.
12 whitehouse.com - a porn site.