University couldn't figure out why network was slow... turns out it was being attacked by its own vending machines 😬 networkworld.com/article/316…

Feb 12, 2017 · 8:57 PM UTC

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The most beautiful part of this is that the vending machines were making thousands of "seafood related DNS queries"
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Internet of 🐋🦈🐬
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lol hey just want to remind you about "seafood related DNS lookups" being a thing 😂
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honestly what admin was like "hum can't see a problem with this 100mb/sec UDP traffic on port 53. Lets get Verizon in here"?
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you've obviously never met educational staff ;)
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this is SO GOOD
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I honestly want to thank the people who did this lol it's genius
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@chrisamccoy cc: @GreatDismal
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Something seems fishy about what that vending machine botnet was doing.
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Daylight saving time already makes me confused. Metric time will break me...
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