[4960] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Bass)
Thu Oct 3 12:12:31 1996
From: Tim Bass <bass@linux.silkroad.com>
To: mo@UU.NET (Mike O'Dell)
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 12:02:30 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: mo@UU.NET, bass@cactus.silkroad.com, nanog@merit.edu, iepg@iepg.org
In-Reply-To: <QQbjvr08480.199610031558@rodan.UU.NET> from "Mike O'Dell" at Oct 3, 96 11:58:24 am
> Vern tested several other approaches. Random Drop wins.
Understood.
But....
>
> 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.
Not really. I can attack the servers with 'a fire hose' and the
DoS attack 'works' but the server runs. I think it is just a problem
with the way I installed the patchs.
I'm working it now.
Thanks again,
Tim
>
> -mo
>
--
We're just two lost souls
swimming in a fish bowl,
year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
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