Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix

["Mike O'Dell" <mo () uu net>]

Vern tested several other approaches. Random Drop wins.

As for your servers, I won't suggest any particular implementation
is good or bad, only that there is at least one that seems to work.

I suspect that if the network interface is fast enough compared to
the processor speed, the machine will wedge when subjected to a fire-hose
of even good requests.

        -mo
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