Messages in this thread | | | From | Yven Leist <> | Subject | Re: TCP: Treason uncloaked DoS ?? | Date | Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:58:34 +0200 |
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On Friday 19 April 2002 18:17, Andi Kleen wrote: > Tim Kay <timk@advfn.com> writes: > > that the connections are kept open if the client connecting doesn't > > actually go away so surely lots of these ocurring at once would overload > > a server. I have googled this and an occasional instance seems normal and > > could be down to a broken client, but lots from different IP addr's at > > once?? > > It is a TCP bug of the other side.
that's strange, I encountered exactly the same message in my syslog while doing backups between two Linux machines, it was somewhere around 2.4.15 I think.
> You can safely comment out the printk. It would be interesting however > to find out what the other side is running and yell at the vendor. > > > I'm a bit concerned that maybe someone is warming up for a hit or > > something. > > More likely someone released a new buggy TCP stack to the world.
Is it possible that there are other things which can cause this? Or does it really mean that Linux has a buggy TCP stack!? I simply cannot believe this ;-) cheers, Yven
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