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At 9:44 PM -0800 11/2/00, Aaron Lynch wrote:
Re: Hackable?
From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Thursday, November 2, 2000
Time: 9:49:00 pm
>>At roughly [2 Nov 2000 22:13:45 GMT] Chris Buxton {cbuxton@menandmice.com}
>>wrote;
>>
>>>We've had reports of this type of behavior before, and we've tested.
>>>It's almost always caused by TCP/IP becoming corrupted, not QuickDNS.
>>
>>So, what you're saying is that a Mac based QuickDNS server, regardless of
>>who's fault, IS susceptible to denial of service attacks?
Yes.
That's one reason why, despite the loss of flexibility, Mac OS X is
using sockets instead of streams. At least, that's my inference.
>I've certainly never heard anybody say Open Transport was
>bulletproof, in fact I think the general consensus is that it's a
>very weak link in the Mac.
>
>But basically, won't *any* server eventually succumb to a DOS
>attack? Yahoo! and several others died not too long ago when someone
>sent their servers a gigabit a second of web requests.
Actually, their bandwidth was consumed, but I don't recall hearing
that their servers crashed. At least, not in Yahoo's case.
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