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From: Daniel Chemko <dchemko@smgtec.com>
To: David Nicol <davidnicol@pay2send.com>
Cc: 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 20:40:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4063B458.4030501@smgtec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40634D80.9050609@pay2send.com>

Check out the Patch-o-matic enhancements to netfilter.
TARPIT? Check.

David Nicol wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-26  4:40 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 ` General denial question (tarpitting) David Nicol
2004-03-26  4:40   ` Daniel Chemko [this message]
2004-03-28 22:59     ` Alex Satrapa
2004-03-26 17:05 Steve Jones

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