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This practice is a type of tarpitting, and is fairly common and achievable in several ways. I've seen it implemented with several-second delays between bytes, b
by jsmthrowaway 10y ago
This practice is a type of tarpitting, and is fairly common and achievable in several ways. I've seen it implemented with several-second delays between bytes, but you have to weigh such active techniques against having the connection and resources set up.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoOr you can re-write enough of the TCP stack in user land to do all of the handshaking and then go away. No connections, no resources wasted, infinite numbers of clients waiting forever and ever in their read() call.
- jsmthrowaway 10y agoOh, sure, I actually liked your method and wish I had thought of it. I meant active techniques like mine.