[5001] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Thu Oct 3 20:54:17 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: jaw@Op.Net (Jeff Weisberg)
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:46:05 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, iepg@iepg.org
In-Reply-To: <199610032148.RAA17714@sulcus.op.net> from "Jeff Weisberg" at Oct 3, 96 05:48:20 pm
Thanks, Jeff!
I almost sent out a version with your name && e-mail address
but figured you might not have time to deal with e-mail from
the curious...
> "someone else local" :-) has thrown the initial implementation up on
> his ftp server; sun3 & sun4 .o's and a back-port to Net/2 src code
> (note though, I have not tested the Net/2 port):
>
> ftp.op.net:/pub/src/syn-prophylactica/
>
> I have been able to withstand a ~600+ syn/sec attack with no
> noticable problems (slightly increased load, but no dropped
> connections).
>
> --jeff
Avi
