lbd (load balancing detector) detects if a given domain uses DNS and/or HTTP Load-Balancing (via Server: and Date: header and diffs between server answers). This is useful for pentests and for curious people. ;) lbd in action looks like this: [[email protected]]$ ./lbd www.map24.de lbd - load balancing detector 0.1 - Checks if a given domain uses load-balancing. Written by Stefan Behte (http://ge.mine.nu) Proof-of-concept! Might give false positives. Checking for DNS-Loadbalancing: NOT FOUND Checking for HTTP-Loadbalancing [Server]: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.3.11 Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) PHP/4.3.11 Apache/2.2.0 (Unix) PHP/4.4.2 FOUND Checking for HTTP-Loadbalancing [Date]: 18:32:56, 18:32:56, 18:32:57, 18:32:58, 18:32:58, 18:32:59, 18:33:00, 18:33:00, 18:33:01, 18:33:02, 18:33:02, 18:33:03, 18:33:04, 18:33:04, 18:33:05, 18:33:06, 18:33:05, FOUND Checking for HTTP-Loadbalancing [Diff]: FOUND < Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/4.3.11 < X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11 > Server: Apache/2.2.0 (Unix) PHP/4.4.2 > X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.2 www.map24.de does Load-balancing. Found via Methods: HTTP[Server] HTTP[Date] HTTP[Diff] [[email protected]]$ ./lbd www.microsoft.com lbd - load balancing detector 0.1 - Checks if a given domain uses load-balancing. Written by Stefan Behte (http://ge.mine.nu) Proof-of-concept! Might give false positives. Checking for DNS-Loadbalancing: FOUND lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.20.60 lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.198.30 lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.198.60 lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.199.30 lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.225.60 lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.19.30 lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.19.60 lb1.www.ms.akadns.net has address 207.46.20.30 Checking for HTTP-Loadbalancing [Server]: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 NOT FOUND Checking for HTTP-Loadbalancing [Date]: 18:30:45, 18:30:46, 18:30:47, 18:30:48, 18:30:49, 18:30:50, 18:30:51, 18:30:51, 18:30:53, 18:30:53, 18:30:54, 18:30:55, 18:30:57, 18:30:57, 18:30:58, 18:30:59, 18:31:01, 18:31:01, 18:31:02, 18:31:03, 18:31:04, 18:31:05, 18:31:06, 18:31:07, 18:31:08, 18:31:09, 18:31:10, 18:31:11, 18:31:12, 18:31:13, 18:31:13, 18:31:14, 18:31:15, 18:31:16, 18:31:17, 18:31:18, 18:31:19, 18:31:20, 18:31:21, 18:31:22, 18:31:23, 18:31:25, 18:31:26, 18:31:26, 18:31:27, 18:31:28, 18:31:30, 18:31:30, 18:31:31, 18:31:33, NOT FOUND Checking for HTTP-Loadbalancing [Diff]: FOUND < Content-Length: 23012 > Content-Length: 23011 www.microsoft.com does Load-balancing. Found via Methods: DNS HTTP[Diff] Written by Stefan Behte Contact me, if you have any new ideas, bugs/bugfixes, recommondations or questions! Please also contact me, if you just like the tool. :) Stefan dot Behte at gmx dot net Released under the GPL-v2