Re: DDos counter measures

[B3r3n <B3r3n () argosnet com>]

Gael,

> Try some other tests using no A record for windowsupdate.com in your local 
> zone,
> you will notice that the damages are even smaller doing that instead of 
> localhost (127.0.0.1).
We also tested this solution to answer nothing to query as with an 
unresolved domain.
But finally the solution answered localhost was kept because we hope a 
machine SYN flooding will behave badly enough so its user creates a call 
and so we could know the machine requires to be patched.

Thanks for raising the idea, some others might prefer this version.

Brgrds


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