On 25 Mar 2004, James Craig Burley wrote: > Basically true, but that's only one aspect of tarpitting. Since the > spammer has to keep open an available port, that's one less port he > can use from any given IP address (using vanilla port management) to > blast out his spam.
No. That's one less port he can use to connect to you (on any given destination port). He can still use the same source port to connect to others. TCP connections are four-tuples. --- Charlie
