[4959] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike O'Dell)
Thu Oct 3 12:08:52 1996
To: Tim Bass <bass@linux.silkroad.com>
cc: mo@UU.NET (Mike O'Dell), bass@cactus.silkroad.com, nanog@merit.edu,
iepg@iepg.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Oct 1996 11:22:27 EDT."
<199610031522.LAA00597@linux.silkroad.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 11:58:24 -0400
From: "Mike O'Dell" <mo@UU.NET>
Vern tested several other approaches. Random Drop wins.
As for your servers, I won't suggest any particular implementation
is good or bad, only that there is at least one that seems to work.
I suspect that if the network interface is fast enough compared to
the processor speed, the machine will wedge when subjected to a fire-hose
of even good requests.
-mo
