From: David Nicol <davidnicol@pay2send.com>
To: Charlie Brady <charlieb-qpsmtpd@budge.apana.org.au>,
qpsmtpd ML <qpsmtpd@perl.org>,
netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: General denial question (tarpitting)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:22:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40634D80.9050609@pay2send.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403251546510.29753-100000@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com>
Charlie Braddy wrote, on the qpsmtpd list, which is about
a perl drop-in replacement for qmail-smtpd:
> If you are going to undertake the noble task of sucking up their
> bandwidth, then I'd suggest that you do the job thoroughly, and make sure
> that their TCP stack decides to retransmit as many packets as possible.
> Use iptables (for instance) to selectively/randomly drop packets.
That's brilliant! does iptables have a TARPIT target that causes
the peer to retransmit as much as possible? Can we add one?
CC to netfilter@lists.netfilter.org, the iptables discussion list.
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-25 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403251546510.29753-100000@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com>
2004-03-25 21:22 ` David Nicol [this message]
2004-03-26 4:40 ` General denial question (tarpitting) Daniel Chemko
2004-03-28 22:59 ` Alex Satrapa
2004-03-26 17:05 Steve Jones
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