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Date:      Fri, 1 Nov 2002 22:49:11 -0500
From:      "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Subject:   rate-limiting uptime went backwards?
Message-ID:  <0C73DE87-EE16-11D6-BF9D-000393754B1C@vangelderen.org>

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Hi,

Is there any specific reason why the "microuptime went backwards" 
message is not rate-limited? These messages are rather easy to provoke 
by the local user tinkering with something as mundane as Java and 
constitute a nice local DoS attack.

-J
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Jeroen C. van Gelderen - jeroen@vangelderen.org - +1 242 357 5115
Incentive Incompatibility


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