From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 22 1:58:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F2437B42C; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 01:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA92364; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 01:58:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 01:58:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Noor Dawod Cc: Domas Mituzas , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: DoS attacks and FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Noor Dawod wrote: > Yes, it can, and I've alreaedy done just that. But then again, all other > legitimate visitors will be locked out... Depends how smart the rate-limiting is. If it's at the application level you know the connection (probably) isn't spoofed, which means you can rate-limit per IP. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message