[Full-Disclosure] Dig SCO?

[Robert Guess]

I don't.

Currently there is (predictably) a lot of disinformation in the media 
about this "DoS Attack".   There have been a number of posts about the 
www.sco.com server(s) being unavailable or the "domain" being 
unavailable.  We did not have to read the "news" to get the story... we 
could have used dig.  Everyone on this list is probably familiar with 
DNS terminology and tools but for those who are not, try "dig any 
sco.com" and you should get something like this:

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> any sco.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18734
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 8

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;sco.com. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
sco.com. 172459 IN NS c7ns1.center7.com.
sco.com. 172459 IN NS ns.calderasystems.com.
sco.com. 172459 IN NS ns2.calderasystems.com.
sco.com. 172459 IN NS nsca.sco.com.
sco.com. 1696 IN SOA ns.calderasystems.com. hostmaster.caldera.com. 
2004020103 3600 900 604800 1800

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
SCO.COM. 172459 IN NS c7ns1.center7.com.
SCO.COM. 172459 IN NS ns.calderasystems.com.
SCO.COM. 172459 IN NS ns2.calderasystems.com.
SCO.COM. 172459 IN NS nsca.sco.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
c7ns1.center7.com. 172459 IN A 216.250.142.20
ns.calderasystems.com. 172459 IN A 216.250.130.1
ns2.calderasystems.com. 172459 IN A 216.250.130.5
nsca.sco.com. 172459 IN A 132.147.210.253
c7ns1.center7.com. 172459 IN A 216.250.142.20
ns.calderasystems.com. 172459 IN A 216.250.130.1
ns2.calderasystems.com. 172459 IN A 216.250.130.5
nsca.sco.com. 172459 IN A 132.147.210.253

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: w.x.y.z
;; WHEN: Sun Feb 1 9:49:22 2004
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 371

Notice the missing A record that should map the name www to something?
The additional section will probably feature a "www" A record after the 
12th (unless someone modifies Mydoom to persist beyond that date). 
Based upon what I know of MyDoom this was probably the best solution (in 
terms of taking the load off of ISPs and backbone segments).  I don't 
feel sorry for SCO but I cannot see any way for this "virus" to benefit 
the open source or free software communities.