What if the sysadmin of SCO saw this SYN flood coming in, launched by a honest to goodness skript kiddie who has nothing better to do. The sysadmin calls Darl up, and he says to turn off SYN blocking for www.sco.com, so they get eaten alive by the packets, taking down their webserver.
Sysadmin flips the "rape us" switch on his desk, lets in those SYN packets, and BAM!, there goes the web server. There isn't a slow buildup time, because the SYN flood is already in full swing.
If I were Darl *shudder*, I think this would be a chance to to turn an attack that would have been easily shrugged off into some positive publicity. Sure, the webserver is down for some time, but the ftp, etc. servers are still up.
Anyone think this is possible?
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What if the sysadmin of SCO saw this SYN flood coming in, launched by a honest to goodness skript kiddie who has nothing better to do. The sysadmin calls Darl up, and he says to turn off SYN blocking for www.sco.com, so they get eaten alive by the packets, taking down their webserver. Sysadmin flips the "rape us" switch on his desk, lets in those SYN packets, and BAM!, there goes the web server. There isn't a slow buildup time, because the SYN flood is already in full swing. If I were Darl *shudder*, I think this would be a chance to to turn an attack that would have been easily shrugged off into some positive publicity. Sure, the webserver is down for some time, but the ftp, etc. servers are still up. Anyone think this is possible?