Messages in this thread | | | From | (George Bonser) | Subject | Re: flood SYN attack | Date | Mon, 23 Sep 1996 04:10:40 GMT |
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Wolfram Kleff <kleff@athene.informatik.uni-bonn.de> writes: > The flood SYN attack completely > locks up the computer while being attacked.
Hmmm, I was under the impression (from the CERT advisory) that a SYN attack can go unnoticed. It WILL cause the net service that is being provided to lock up (since all available connections are taken) but other services will operate normally. Or am I thinking of a different attack? This is from the CERT advisory concerning a denial of service by filling the structure that keeps track of open connections to a service with half-open connections (a syn but no syn-ack).
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