On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Brook Milligan wrote:
> Does anyone know how NetBSD fairs in handling denial of service
> attacks like are going on now with Yahoo!, etc.?  Is there any way to
> up the profile of NetBSD by promoting an architectural feature that
> makes it easier to avoid such problems and gain a bit from the blast
> of recent publicity?

As noone seems to know yet what the attack exactly was, that's hard to
say. One thing I know NetBSD has against DOS attacks is a SYN-cache to
prevent SYN-flood style DOS-attacks.


 - Hubert

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