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question for usenet vets....
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:03:19 GMT
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Severe server problems, mail, news, and internet the last few
days. One of the excuses was that a "SYN" attack had been
suffered. What is that?
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| (...) It's a common denial of service attack, basically involving overwhelming a server with forged TCP/IP packets. To gloss over much technical stuff: there's a "handshaking" procedure involved in making a TCP/IP connection -- the client and the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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