Re: Subtle qmail bug? (was Re: Handling an MX record of 0.0.0.0 o r 127.0.0.1)

[Peter van Dijk]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:17:14PM -0800, Greg White wrote:
[snip]
> A user on a dialup sending 10 messages per second can start a DoS
> attack normally only possible for a user with a T1, consisting of
> 600 messages per second.

And with only the system-load (taken as a broad concept :) associated
with that attack. There is no network-bandwidth-abuse involved.
(localhost is not considered a network, here).

Greetz, Peter.