charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes: > DoS of course = denial of service, which is a large basket. I think it > sometimes means any sort of "bring the system down or make it > ineffective" attack, but usually I think it refers to repeatedly > starting a TCP session and not completing it so as to tie up resources > and make real connections impossible. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#74 Running unsupported is dangerous was Re: AW: Re: LE strikes again http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#75 Running unsupported is dangerous was Re: AW: Re: LE strikes again http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#80 Running unsupported is dangerous was Re: AW: Re: LE strikes again June 17th 1995, the internet facing servers for the largest online service provider started crashing. they brought in lots of experts to look at the problem ... and finally one of their people flew out to silicon valley and bought me a hamburger after work. I ate the burger while he described the problem ... and then I gave him a Q&D fix that stopped the crashing (that he installed that night). I then tried to get vendors to address the problem but found no interest. Almost exactly a year later there was lots of publicity about service provider in Manhatten started crashing ... and all of a sudden vendors started bragging on fast they reacted. One of the issues was that there appeared to be two different groups ... those writting the code and those writting the specs ... some particular DOS were because small gaps between what some of the code did and what some of the specs said ... and didn't have people that did detailed study/understanding of both. Until he passed, the internet standards editor would let me help with the periodic STD1 ... he also sponsored my talk at ISI/USC why internet wasn't (yet) business critical dataprocessing -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
