Scott Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It means that a user sending a steady stream of 10 (small)
messages/sec over a dialup connection makes your system deal with
600 messages/sec, which would normally take a T1.
But this doesn't involve any real network connections - it's all on
loopback.
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:56:38PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
Scott Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It means that a user sending a steady stream of 10 (small)
messages/sec over a dialup connection makes your system deal with
600 messages/sec, which would normally take a T1.
But this
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
Greg Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well I guess that this one is definitely elligible for the
"qmail security challenge".
http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/qmail-challenge.html
I don't think so. The challenge says:
Obviously, the purpose of reporting this bug wasn't to win the
