On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 06:53:45 -0600 (CST), Jason <baker@cyborgworkshop.com> wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.50.0302280652440.20514-100000@alfred.home.cyborgworkshop.co m>: > well remember, them getting bigger boxes are to handle the number of > connections that I am giving to them. Its not a matter of TCP slowing > down, its us waiting on their application to finish and their app just > handles waits very poorly. ...effectively dos attacking itself, and with authority? How is it controlled? There must have been a control philosophy somewhere between the design stage and the upgrade of this application? ..an idea: limit the number of connections to a level the authorized dos attack app _can_ handle, and to reject or reset rather than dropping connections? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.
