From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru
Cc: simon@fire.lp0.eu, john@screen.lv, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: strange tcp behavior
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:04:51 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070803.130451.63127177.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070803082242.GA25582@2ka.mipt.ru>
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:22:42 +0400
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:21:34PM -0700, David Miller (davem@davemloft.net) wrote:
> > What in the world are we doing allowing stream sockets to autobind?
> > That is totally bogus. Even if we autobind, that won't make a connect
> > happen.
>
> For accepted socket it is perfectly valid assumption - we could autobind
> it during the first send. Or may bind it during accept. Its a matter of
> taste I think. Autobinding during first sending can end up being a
> protection against DoS in some obscure rare case...
accept()ed socket is by definition fully bound and already in
established state.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-03 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-02 6:19 strange tcp behavior john
2007-08-02 9:55 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-02 10:16 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-02 11:38 ` Simon Arlott
2007-08-02 12:04 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-02 12:28 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
[not found] ` <46860.212.93.96.73.1186055105.squirrel@mail.screen.lv>
2007-08-02 12:15 ` Simon Arlott
2007-08-02 17:15 ` Simon Arlott
2007-08-02 18:08 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-02 18:48 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-02 22:02 ` David Miller
2007-08-03 2:21 ` David Miller
2007-08-03 8:22 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-03 20:04 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-08-04 16:49 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-03 21:17 ` David Miller
2007-08-04 16:51 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-05 3:21 ` David Miller
2007-08-02 18:58 ` Simon Arlott
2007-08-03 8:25 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-03 11:21 ` Simon Arlott
2007-08-03 11:56 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-03 12:03 ` Simon Arlott
2007-08-03 12:09 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-03 16:51 ` Simon Arlott
2007-08-03 17:39 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-08-03 18:29 ` Simon Arlott
2007-08-04 16:03 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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