> > Could someone explain to me how the following code from StandardServer,
> > starting from line 526 (v5.0.27), helps protect from a Dos attack?  Why
> not
> > simply limit the incoming stream to 1024, and be done with it?

> Bah! TC listens on 127.0.0.1:(normaly: 8005). If someone is doing a DoS
> attack
> on localhost then he is logged in my machine. Use "<Server port="0"
> shutdown="SHUTDOWN" debug="0"> in server.xml if you think your machine is
> unsafe.

That's not what I meant.  I'm completely confident that my machine is
secure.  I don't understand why a randomizer is necessary to increase the
byte count length when attempting to read shutdown commands of greater than
1000 characters.

Lukas




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