RE: denial of service attack

2001-01-17 Thread Tal Dayan
You proposal is based on determination that the request is 'from the same client'. What is your definition for a 'client' and how do you determine if two requests are form the same client ? Tal > -Original Message- > From: Scott Christley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, Ja

Re: denial of service attack

2001-01-17 Thread Kief Morris
Scott Christley typed the following on 10:54 AM 1/17/2001 -0800 >I must apologize first by saying that I originally found this bug with >Jserv not Tomcat, but those of you who are familiar with Tomcat >internals can probably tell fairly quickly if this would still be an >issue. It could potential

RE: denial of service attack

2001-01-17 Thread Tomas Rokicki
What's a client? For instance, if it's truly an attack, it would be trivial to spoof IP addresses. And with entire corporations behind NAT firewalls, simply setting the number of sessions per IP addresses to a `small' number would not work. Or, are you saying, don't initiate a session until the