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Re: denial of service attack possible
From: nreadwin () LONDON MICROGNOSIS COM (Neil Readwin)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 19:54:18 +0000
Nathan Lawson writes:
[...] limiting the number of requests from one machine.
This is probably not very useful as a defence against deliberate DOS attacks since the attacker can randomize the source address. This has the added benefit of overloading your named with all the reverse lookups :-) -- nreadwin () micrognosis co uk Phone: +1 908 855 1221 x519 Anything is a cause for sorrow that my mind or body has made
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- Re: denial of service attack possible Nathan Lawson (Oct 27)
- Re: denial of service attack possible Darren Reed (Oct 28)
- Re: denial of service attack possible Neil Readwin (Oct 30)
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- Re: denial of service attack possible Casper Dik (Oct 29)
- Re: denial of service attack possible System Administrator (Oct 30)
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