From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 13 22:42:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA01881 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 22:42:01 -0800 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA01864 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 22:41:53 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id HAA01579 ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 07:41:45 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id HAA26179 ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 07:41:45 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.1/keltia-uucp-2.6) id AAA04886; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:41:57 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199511132341.AAA04886@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: TIME_WAIT and linear chain of TCPCBs (was: ...beat a WEB server to death) To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:41:57 +0100 (MET) Cc: davidg@Root.COM, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511132302.AAA01380@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Nov 14, 95 00:02:08 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1327 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Luigi Rizzo said: > > especially because they do not derive from a bug but from a feature :) There was talk about something somewhat related in bugtraq about half opened connections (SYN_RECV then nothing else) and the possible denial of service... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #1: Sun Nov 12 16:47:05 MET 1995