Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 00:44:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein) Cc: des@flood.ping.uio.no (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), jameso@omaha.com (Jim), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MSNBC article Message-ID: <200002120044.RAA28142@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000209112600.X17536@fw.wintelcom.net> from "Alfred Perlstein" at Feb 09, 2000 11:26:00 AM
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> * Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> [000209 09:38] wrote: > > Jim <jameso@omaha.com> writes: > > > http://www.msnbc.com/msn/367495.asp > > > [...] > > > Comments? > > > > It's not a vulnerability, it's a DoS. A little worse than a simple > > flooder, but not much. MSNBC's explanation of how it works is > > incorrect, too - what confuses the router is the destination address > > on the ACK packet (since the packet it ACKs has a random source > > address). There is no argument between the router and the server about > > what's happening. > > Can you guys check the story again? > I get pushed to: http://www.msnbc.com/msn/367495.asp > > I can't find 'BSD' or 'cooper' anywhere on the page, and hints? :) I took him to task on technical grounds in private email; this may have had something to do with it. That's the beauty of the web -- "We have always been at war with the East -- look at our news archives...". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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