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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Ferdinand Goldmann <ferdl@atommuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at>
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Subject: Re: Denial of Service attacks
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On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Ferdinand Goldmann wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Has there been any change of status on these two DoSes ?
> > 
> > http://www.securityfocus.com/vdb/bottom.html?vid=622
> 
> This one just cold-booted my 3.3-RELEASE system.
> 
> I currently have no newer systems here to test it out, but someone with
> 3.3-STABLE or 4.0-CURRENT please test this...

There are now login limits to mbuf allocation to catch idiot users,
an alternate and more effective approach is 'rmuser'.

-Alfred



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