Socksend, for Linux!

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:09 pm

For those who might know about the little command-line app I wrote a long time ago called socksend, well I'm writing it for linux. After a bit of brushing up on C++ and learning STL, I realized how much easier Linux is to program under.

Basically this program is used to send packets to a server. So you specify the server, port, TX file, RX file, times to send, and delay between sending.

It can be used for many things such as auto form submissions, DoSing, and network diagnostics. I know the windows version can crash IIS servers in a matter of minutes, so I can't wait to see what the linux version will do.

I need to get myself a crash box to put IIS on it and see how much I can abuse it.

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Cold Drink · Post by **Cold Drink** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 1:28 pm

Just be careful. We've been getting DDoSed bt a referrer spammer. Don't make yourself look suspicious

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:45 pm

Oh I hate referrer spammers, they'se like no point to spamming in logs, but then again I end up checking the site so I guess it sort of works. Usually I use this program or a similar one to submit a form repeatedly, on spamming sites. I just hope they get email alerts when it's submitted.

But DoSing random sites is just stupid.

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Cold Drink · Post by **Cold Drink** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:42 pm

At some point I remember there was a trend in showing you're latest referrers automatically on you're site. That plus the trackback craze probably helps. I don't think its really to increace clicks, but proabably ot increace search engine rank.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:46 pm

Yeah for some reason allot of people still do that now. I sort of would not want to be posting my stats online, not sure why some do it.

And Imay be wrong but I think for page ranks to work the links back to the site have to actually be real links and not just typed in plain text, and most of those online stats don't have real links. But I could be wrong.

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Cold Drink · Post by **Cold Drink** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:56 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: Yeah for some reason allot of people still do that now. I sort of would not want to be posting my stats online, not sure why some do it.

And Imay be wrong but I think for page ranks to work the links back to the site have to actually be real links and not just typed in plain text, and most of those online stats don't have real links. But I could be wrong.

Trackback and such often wind up as clickable links, so that would do it.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:26 am

Hmm just discovered a flaw in my program, need to figure this out. It's not sending out POST requests properly when doing http, I always get a "invalid verb" error or similar. Tried both PC and unix line types. This is a tricky one. Another flaw is that it crashes when I send too much data. If I can perfect this app I may release it with through the GPL license for network diagnostic and what not.

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