DDoS in FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE And Problen With The Clock

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Mon Jun 11 20:58:27 UTC 2007


At 04:54 PM 6/11/2007, Chuck Swiger wrote:
this unfortunate event by reordering instructions if needed, but if
>you wrote your own assembly, you could in fact do a hardware DDoS if
>you weren't careful.  :-)

Hi,
         I thought DDoS = _Distributed_ Denial of Service where 
multiple attacking devices gang up to attack a host.  Is your example 
not just a plain old Denial of Service (DoS) ?

         ---Mike 



More information about the freebsd-stable mailing list