Re: chance to impress the suits

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 06:53:45 -0600 (CST), 
Jason <baker@cyborgworkshop.com> wrote in message 
<Pine.LNX.4.50.0302280652440.20514-100000@alfred.home.cyborgworkshop.co
m>:

> well remember, them getting bigger boxes are to handle the number of
> connections that I am giving to them.  Its not a matter of TCP slowing
> down, its us waiting on their application to finish and their app just
> handles waits very poorly.

...effectively dos attacking itself, and with authority?  How is 
it controlled?  There must have been a control philosophy somewhere 
between the design stage and the upgrade of this application?   

..an idea: limit the number of connections to a level the authorized 
dos attack app _can_ handle, and to reject or reset rather than 
dropping connections?

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.