On Friday 22 May 2009 12:19:32 pm Rick Macklem wrote: > > On Fri, 22 May 2009, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > What about a malicious denial-of-service attack where a malicious client > > initiates an endless stream of connection attempts to force a panic? I think > > that is where the concern lies. I'm sure a malicious client could do it > > intentionally in less than 136 years, perhaps on the order of seconds and/or > > minutes? :) > > > I think blocking IP#s at some external firewall is going to be the only > way to survive such an attack, but I suppose it's nice if the server > doesn't reboot during the attack and just gets really really slow.
Yes, I think that is very reasonable and I wouldn't expect anything more than that. Thanks. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
