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Apple's Response to "Denial of Service"

Posted by Hemos on from the keeping-up-with-joneses dept.

carbondave writes "Apple has made an update for Open Transport and it is currently available for download at Apple's website. Here is the contents of the read me that comes along with it. OT Tuner 1.0 switches off an option in Open Transport that would cause a Macintosh to respond to certain small network packets with a large Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packet. This update prevents Macintosh computers from being the cause of certain types of Denial of Service (DOS) issues. " This is a follow-up to yesterday's coverage of OS9 machines being used in DoS attacks.

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  1. Quick response. by _GNU_ · · Score: 4

    Apple got it out about an hour after the slashdot post, very good compared to "other" software companies..

  2. Most consistent DOS perpetrator: Slashdot by DonFreenut · · Score: 4


    I find any Slashdot coverage of DOS issues vaguely ironic, as the Slashdot effect is probably responsible for more DOS attacks on web servers than any other person/group/effect. It's especially funny because the targets of these attacks are supposedly sites of interest to the attackers. It's kind of like one of the web-defacement groups DOS-ing attrition.org, or something.

    That's not to say that I'm going to stop participating in the daily massive distributed DOS attempts. No one ever said the Internet was a republic.