Re: Spoofing an IP over the internet

[Simon <simon () xhz ca>]

>   One variety of DoS attack is resource starvation.  One resource
> that is easy to consume remotely is bandwidth.
>
>   Not all DoS attacks consume significant bandwidth.  In fact, 
> consuming CPU time is another popular form of resource-starvation
> DoS attack.  On the other hand, causing a server to endlessly 
> reboot, over and over, makes its services unavailable while not
> significantly consuming any resources at all.

So I must make sure that the script, if it finds a DoS attack should not consume 
resources.  And the only resource that will be consumed are incoming packets.

The rest has more to do with system administration, firewalls and stuff not 
exactly with my script.

Thanks a lot!
  Simon