> Doesn't this lead to a potential DoS ? For example, if someone ran multiple
> scans against your box with faked IPs it could fill up the log partition.
I consider this as a joke. There are plenty of other
methods to fill up a log partition. Also every good
administrator should have taken advantages to avoid
or handle this...
> It's also dubious as to whether anyone doing such a scan would be using
> their real IP address anyway.
At last one IP has to be a real one. And in fact I
think most attackers aren't very carefull or they are just
beginners. I hope a real hacker would have quite more
elegant ways to get around the bricks and stones.
Bye.
-- Joachim Baran jbaran@hildesheim.sgh-net.de Breslauerstr.18 http://prinz.hannover.sgh-net.de/~jbaran 31171 Mahlerten Network Administration Lower Saxony/Germany and Programming
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/