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Comment CodeRed is still wasting bandwidth (Score 1) 423

As of about a month ago, I was able to take advantage of the fact that CodeRed is still out there wasting bandwidth. I benefitted from it because it's continually trying to spread itself, which generates zillions of unanswered ARP requests.

I was looking for an unused IP address to *borrow* (for use on a non-DHCP-enabled laptop), so I started a packet sniffer and waited for an unanswered ARP to go by -- in less than a minute, I had my new IP address.

Thanks CodeRed!

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