Search Again: DOS attacks From: eric@micromaniac.com Date: Friday, November 19, 1999 Time: 5:50:00 pm How exactly do DOS attacks (Denial Of Service) work? My primary Mac uses VicomSoft's SoftRouter Plus which blocks DOS attacks, but I don't know how it does it. Are DOS attacks on a certain port #, or are they a high number of TCP/IP requests designed to overload your system, or something else? Apparently MacOS 9 has better TCP/IP handling. Anyone know if this helps in DOS attacks? I'm shopping for firewalls for my other two Macs. I'll probably buy a hardware firewall to cover both. How risky is it to run a DNS server or FMP server without a firewall? I know many people who don't use a firewall and have never had a problem (probably because DOS attackers have not found them yet). I think some upstream ISPs already put you behind some limited firewall protections. Any comments and thoughts are appreciated, as well as firewall suggestions! Thanks! Eric.

Messages In This Thread: DOS attacks by eric@micromaniac.com on Nov 19, 1999 at 5:50:00 pm DOS attacks by QuickDNS@clube.interlink.com.br on Dec 1, 1999 at 10:50:00 pm