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Re: denial of service attack possible


From: nreadwin () LONDON MICROGNOSIS COM (Neil Readwin)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 19:54:18 +0000


Nathan Lawson writes:
[...] limiting the number of requests from one machine.

This is probably not very useful as a defence against deliberate DOS
attacks since the attacker can randomize the source address. This has the
added benefit of overloading your named with all the reverse lookups :-)
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