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Re: Naptha - New DoS


From: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh () POP JARING MY>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 16:57:41 +0800

At 12:17 PM 12/7/00 -0500, White Vampire wrote:

      This concept is ancient, NAPTHA however has a new twist.  It
should be taken more seriously.

When you are attacked, can you stop it by filtering out the attacker's IP
address/range? If you can then it's not so bad. It's easier to track the
attacker down and also defeat the attack, compared to some other DOS attacks.

I find it interesting that Redhat 7.0 is said to be not affected whereas
Redhat 6.1 is. Why is that the case? Is it a configuration issue on 6.1?

Cheerio,
Link.


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