From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 18 18:30:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3282B15199 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 18:30:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA11553; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:30:07 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:30:07 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: Ken Bolingbroke , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, lutz@iks-jena.de Subject: Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, David Scheidt wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > > > > In a nutshell, teergrubing is the name that has been given to a simple > > technique that exploits a small but significant known weakness of most > > SMTP client implementations. This weakness is exploited to either slow > > down or halt the flow of e-mail from some SMTP client to some SMTP server. > > Think about it before you fire it up. You are essentially launching a DOS > attack on somebody's mail server. In some jurisdictions, that's a felony. My mistake. I confused this with some of the other anti-spam measures. Being slow isn't criminal. (fortunatly for me!)_ David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message