Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:17:06 +0000 (GMT) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.16 through 2.2.18preX TCP hang bug triggered by rsync |
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > It's mostly for security to make it more difficult to nuke connections > > without knowing the sequence number. > > > > Remember RFC is from a very different internet with much less DoS attacks. > > If you're deliberately breaking compatibility by violating the specs, > you're making your own DoS if your machines can't chat to each other. If > you insist on breaking the RFC, make a sysctl for this behaviour that > defaults to "off".
This isn't a violation - the section quoted does not REQUIRE the behaviour, it only RECOMMENDS it as being a good idea. Since implementing it apparently makes DoS attacks easier, NOT implementing it is now a better idea...
James.
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