Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:30:07 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, lutz@iks-jena.de Subject: Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991218202833.45489A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991218202114.45395B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
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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
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