Comment on Researcher sets up illegal 420,000 node botnet for IPv4 Internet mapComments−_bj1v13yThanks for the list of 1.3 billion potentially in-use IP addresses! I had to spend USD15 to run 8 medium EC2 instances for 16 hours to only find 200++ million hosts.−taloft13ySo the same results can be achieved for less than a hundred bucks without the risk of spending the rest of your life in jail?−_bj1v13yNot quite. My method was far from what this guy is doing. I only did a minimal ping, one packet per IP with a Python script: s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.getprotobyname("icmp")) for address in addresses: s.sendto(pkt, (address, 1)) s.close() At the same time, I had tcpdump running, i.e. "tcpdump -i en1 icmp[icmptype] == icmp-echoreply" to capture the replies.−Nilzor13y...what value has this information?
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Thanks for the list of 1.3 billion potentially in-use IP addresses! I had to spend USD15 to run 8 medium EC2 instances for 16 hours to only find 200++ million hosts.
So the same results can be achieved for less than a hundred bucks without the risk of spending the rest of your life in jail?
Not quite. My method was far from what this guy is doing. I only did a minimal ping, one packet per IP with a Python script:
At the same time, I had tcpdump running, i.e. "tcpdump -i en1 icmp[icmptype] == icmp-echoreply" to capture the replies....what value has this information?