Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > The issue is that the CPU spikes to ~90% utilization for the server > during the attack, for as long as the attack lasts. So the theory is > that Python isn't throttling or processing the malformed packets > properly. Copying Renier for any additional info.
I don't know who Renier is, but Python is a programming language and doesn't integrate a "throttling" facility or ad-hoc protection against network attacks. Other programming languages will show exactly the same behaviour. The socket module gives access to the system's low-level socket operations, it is not a high-level network programming framework. Besides, truly malformed packets will never get processed by Python, they will be blocked by the kernel (e.g. because of a checksum failure). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13891> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
