Re: DoS attack against TCP services

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Feb 4, 11:27pm, 6bone%6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de@localhost (6bone%6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de@localhost) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: DoS attack against TCP services

| Hello,
| 
| I'm afraid I have chosen the wrong subject. After some testing, I found 
| that all tcp connections go in the TIME_WAIT state. This applies to 
| inbound connections and outbound connections. To me it looked like an 
| attack. But now I think it is a kernel error.
| 
| After restarting the server a few weeks is stable. Any event brings the 
| server then to leave all tcp connections in the TIME_WAIT state.

Something timer related? Are there any clock events?

christos