DDoS in FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE And Problen With The Clock

JoaoBR joao at matik.com.br
Mon Jun 11 22:25:16 UTC 2007


On Monday 11 June 2007 18:05:59 Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes, it is.
>
> >   Is your example not just a plain old Denial of Service (DoS) ?
>
> Yes, as it stands.  But if you ship this code to other machines,
> perhaps it would then qualify as being _Distributed_....?  :-) / 2

clever switch but still wrong ... DDoS is ONE target and multi-source but not 
multi-target and local source :)


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João







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