Comment #3 on issue 158 by eric.d.lambert: Single packet DoS on UDP channel
http://code.google.com/p/memcached/issues/detail?id=158
Just FYI, was not able to reproduce this on mac using 1.4.5 with libevent
2.07-rc ... will take a look on linux when I get a chance.
smacky:Downloads elambert$ python ./largeudp.py a localhost 11211 1200
[-] Using ascii protocol. Good choice!
[-] Creating socket
[-] Is memcached responding? Yes
[-] Great, server responds
[-] Sending large packet with size 1208
[-] Timeout expired waiting for response to large packet
[-] Is memcached responding? Yes
[E] DoS appears to have failed
smacky:Downloads elambert$ echo "stats" | nc localhost 11211 |
egrep "version|libevent"
STAT version 1.4.5_1_gb4936c4
STAT libevent 2.0.7-rc
smacky:Downloads elambert$ uname -a
Darwin smacky.local 10.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Fri Apr 23
18:28:53 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.7.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
smacky:Downloads elambert$
