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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Nebojsa Miljanovic <neb@alcatel-lucent.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Kittlitz,
	Edward (Ned)" <nkittlitz@alcatel-lucent.com>,
	asweeney@alcatel-lucent.com, "Polhemus,
	William (Bart)" <bpolhemus@alcatel-lucent.com>
Subject: Re: SO_REUSEADDR not allowing server and client to use same port
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:30:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080317173021.28e6fd97@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47DE9FB0.5030801@alcatel-lucent.com>

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:43:28 -0500
Nebojsa Miljanovic <neb@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:

> Alan,
> thanks. With that additional INFO, I was able to find detailed description of
> this denial of service attack (attached below).
> Just to clarify. Having this port re-use check prevents folks from launching
> this attack as opposed to being victim of it?

Different issue. I can hijack a connection.

Imagine I have a server bound to *.5000, and someone is about to connect.
If on the server box I am able to bind and issue a connect outwards
matching the inbound connection I will get the connection not the server.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-17 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-28 18:15 SO_REUSEADDR not allowing server and client to use same port Nebojsa Miljanovic
2008-02-28 18:30 ` Phil Oester
2008-02-28 20:19 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-28 20:41   ` Willy Tarreau
2008-03-13 19:18   ` Nebojsa Miljanovic
2008-03-15 13:34     ` Alan Cox
2008-03-17 16:43       ` Nebojsa Miljanovic
2008-03-17 17:30         ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-03-17 18:17           ` Nebojsa Miljanovic
2008-03-18  5:48             ` Willy Tarreau
2008-02-28 20:36 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-02-28 20:44   ` Nebojsa Miljanovic

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