On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:47:36PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 >> Version: 2.6.26-13lenny2 >> Severity: normal >> >> Hi, >> >> When the half-open TCP connection queue is full and syn cookies are enabled, you get a message like "kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 2710. Sending cookies." >> However when syn cookies are disabled, you don't get any message (in kern.log), although connections to your server are timing out. >> Could such a message be added? >> Maybe with a suggestion to increase the size of that queue or to enable syn cookies. > > That should be discussed with the upstream developers, the Debian BTS is not > the best way to change this. You can reach them at linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi Linux net devs, See this issue reported in the Debian BTS. Olaf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
