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From: David Nicol <davidnicol@pay2send.com>
Subject: Re: General denial question (tarpitting)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:22:08 -0600
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To: Charlie Brady <charlieb-qpsmtpd@budge.apana.org.au>, qpsmtpd ML <qpsmtpd@perl.org>, netfilter@lists.netfilter.org



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.