From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Tim Kay <timk@advfn.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP: Treason uncloaked DoS ??
Date: 19 Apr 2002 18:17:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p731ydbacja.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200204191512.g3JFCvl18558@mail.advfn.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
Tim Kay <timk@advfn.com> writes:
> that the connections are kept open if the client connecting doesn't actually
> go away so surely lots of these ocurring at once would overload a server. I
> have googled this and an occasional instance seems normal and could be down
> to a broken client, but lots from different IP addr's at once??
It is a TCP bug of the other side.
You can safely comment out the printk. It would be interesting however
to find out what the other side is running and yell at the vendor.
> I'm a bit concerned that maybe someone is warming up for a hit or something.
More likely someone released a new buggy TCP stack to the world.
-Andi
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2002-04-19 16:17 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-04-19 19:58 ` TCP: Treason uncloaked DoS ?? Yven Leist
2004-02-18 10:27 Klaus Ethgen
2004-02-18 10:55 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-02-18 14:32 ` Zan Lynx
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2002-04-19 15:15 Tim Kay
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