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Re: "LAND" Attack Update (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Milhollan)
Fri Nov 21 22:56:30 1997

To: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 19:47:03 -0800
From: Mark Milhollan <mlm@ftel.net>

>is SYN a TCP small service?  

SYN is what initiates a TCP session.  All TCP listeners are at risk,
i.e., tcp-small-servers, vty's, rcmd's, some routing protocols.

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