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how does linux defend against synchronous attack?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jyan-min fang)
Wed Nov 6 16:47:23 1996
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 16:45:20 -0500 (EST)
From: jyan-min fang <fang@sun2.bnl.gov>
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Hi,
In that infamous pcweek article, the author mentioned that
linux is the only OS which can somehow defend the synchronous
attack. I remembered, in an article in NYTimes a few months ago,
that one of the NYC ISPs (panix I believed) were brought down
completely by the synchronous attack and it said some experts
believed the synchronous attack is intrinsic and can't be
guarded against. At that time, I kind of agreed with those
opinions after reading the article, and now I am very amazed
that linux has a soultion to it. So, how does linux manage to
work around this synchronous attack?
jmf
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