Comment on Researcher sets up illegal 420,000 node botnet for IPv4 Internet mapComments−InformalRelief13yCan somebody here ballpark how much this would cost if you rented servers instead of using a botnet?−mike_esspe13yThe problem with renting is that your provider will probably shutdown you, if your scan rate is high. At least that is the problem with large dedicated server hosters.−GFischer13yFunnily, the post inmediately above you (posted a bit later) mentions:"I had to spend USD15 to run 8 medium EC2 instances for 16 hours to only find 200++ million hosts"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5406233and another study was done using EC2 instances:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5405483
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Can somebody here ballpark how much this would cost if you rented servers instead of using a botnet?
The problem with renting is that your provider will probably shutdown you, if your scan rate is high. At least that is the problem with large dedicated server hosters.
Funnily, the post inmediately above you (posted a bit later) mentions:
"I had to spend USD15 to run 8 medium EC2 instances for 16 hours to only find 200++ million hosts"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5406233
and another study was done using EC2 instances:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5405483