Right; with an application level ping/pong you disconnect under load even if the other side is actively accepting data.
-David Waite Bernd Eckenfels wrote: >On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:16:52PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>Attacking users on IRC is using CTCP PING which is different. CTCP's >>are a client to client protocol and as such aren't really part of the >>IRC core protocol and IRC servers (usually[1]) don't realise they even exist. >>The IRC Server uses a different protocol for it's keep alive and for >>some servers, no spoof pings. >> >> > >It was attacked anyway, because flooding a user especially inband and out of >band will delay the pong so long, that the server resetes the connection. > >Greetings >Bernd >_______________________________________________ >jdev mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
