From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 09:58:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF80316A4BF for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8852944001 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:58:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h7SGw7Fb073122; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:58:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030828125725.066d9ca0@209.112.4.2> X-Sender: mdtpop@209.112.4.2 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:00:26 -0400 To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: By Sentex Communications (lava/20020517) Subject: new DoS technique (exploiting TCP retransmission timeouts) X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:58:09 -0000 An interesting paper http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003/papers/p75-kuzmanovic.pdf ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike