Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:
It seems to me the "problem" is with SYN cookies.
SYN cookies are only mentioned to boast about their high-performance tcp flooder. Problem is that some systems 'became overly responsive', and this is clearly an implementation issue.
"We noticed that certain systems would start resending certain packet responses continuously until they were rebooted," Lee said.
Certain (buggy) systems resend certain (invalid/unneeded) responses, lo and behold: tcp is broken forever. Phew.
-- ./lxnt
