On http://lwn.net/daily/ptable.html is a description of denial of
service process table attacks. Am I correct that tcpserver limits
fork() calls to a specified number, and therefore alleviates the
situation?
Thanks,
John
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John Conover, 631 Lamont Ct., Campbell, CA., 95008
At 05:31 23/02/99 -, you wrote:
On http://lwn.net/daily/ptable.html is a description of denial of
service process table attacks. Am I correct that tcpserver limits
fork() calls to a specified number, and therefore alleviates the
situation?
Correct. As long as you run all of your services via
"md" == Mark Delany [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
md Whilst some inetd implementations have crude forms of DOS
md protection (initially created for other reasons) I'm not aware of
md too many that protect against concurrency - most do it by rate.
Heh. If I may take a slight detour to tell an
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Mark Delany wrote:
At 05:31 23/02/99 -, you wrote:
On http://lwn.net/daily/ptable.html is a description of denial of
service process table attacks. Am I correct that tcpserver limits
fork() calls to a specified number, and therefore alleviates the
situation
