[2325] in bugtraq
Re: denial of service attack possible
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil Readwin)
Wed Nov 1 13:12:49 1995
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 19:54:18 +0000
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From: Neil Readwin <nreadwin@LONDON.MICROGNOSIS.COM>
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In-Reply-To: <199510272019.NAA27175@statler.csc.calpoly.edu> from "Nathan
Lawson" at Oct 27, 95 01:19:02 pm
Nathan Lawson writes:
> [...] limiting the number of requests from one machine.
This is probably not very useful as a defence against deliberate DOS
attacks since the attacker can randomize the source address. This has the
added benefit of overloading your named with all the reverse lookups :-)
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