On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Fernando Gont wrote:
> >That's an old explanation; basically any OS released in the last few years
> >will throw old/random connections out of the queue when it fills up.
>
> Anyway, I wonder how the old implementations behaved, and why they behaved
> like that.
I don't thi
At 14:17 20/10/2001 -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> > I've read some explanations about the SYN flood DoS attack.
> > I understand that when the attacker fills the listening queue of the
> > attacked host with incomplete connections, the attacked host will not
> > reply to any SYN it receives aft
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Fernando Gont wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've read some explanations about the SYN flood DoS attack.
> I understand that when the attacker fills the listening queue of the
> attacked host with incomplete connections, the attacked host will not
> reply to any SYN it receives after that
Hi!
I've read some explanations about the SYN flood DoS attack.
I understand that when the attacker fills the listening queue of the
attacked host with incomplete connections, the attacked host will not
reply to any SYN it receives after that.
However, I don't understand why it will not even rep
