Yeah, I been playing around wid TCP/IP code for beginners and made port flooder.

Here is a you tube video of the source code and flood in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSEc7a5bfW4

By the way, this was inspired by Lulu's wav for Roobii.

First, I'm sure theplanet and wtf.com will love seeing this.

Second, TCP SYN floods are trivial to defend against with modern operating systems. In Linux, it's as simple as setting tcp_syncookies to 1 ( `cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies` to see what it is now), or using a firewall to limit the number of open/half-open connections from a given IP (only X SYN-only connections, and only Y full SYN+ACK connections).

If you don't spoof the source address, it's trivial to trace and prosecute (and yes, the FBI - or your local equivalent - will arrest you for this). If you do spoof the source address, it's trivial to block.

Playing these games against professional network admins is usually a "very bad" idea.

No worries. Its only a bit of tongue in rim fun. As if my crappy modem would really outdo wtf.com

The trick is to run the program from a variety of machines connected to the Internet. Then wtf.com may start having problems...

Btw...it was completely random that wtf.com was used in the video.

that was nearly as boring as the blair witch project