SYN floods continueg

Wed Sep 11 20:48:43 UTC 1996

> On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
> > and another provider in Philly was attacked for 4-6 hours on news ports
> > (pretty ineffective). 
> 
> Hi.  Why was this ineffective? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris Caputo
> President, Altopia Corporation

Because most providers only let their customers connect to their nnrp/nntp
servers.  And you can easily build a filter which allows just port-119
connects from your news peers and denies all others...

Of course, that wouldn't work as well for alt.net (you guys) if you're
still selling off-site nnrp access to hundreds of people.

Avi