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It's a pretty short code written in perl. I'd be scared if it was modified from curl or written in erlang. The author admits being corrected about the type of a
by jimmyrcom 17y ago
It's a pretty short code written in perl. I'd be scared if it was modified from curl or written in erlang. The author admits being corrected about the type of attack not being new but claims thats the first tool. I don't see how its new though. Whether you keep alive by incomplete requests, by valid requests or by sending post data very slowly, it doesn't seem to make a difference. Just eat up as many connections as possible.
- gojomo 17y agoThat perl script is about 100x longer than it needs to be (even disregarding the embedded docs and ASCII graphics). This is a super-simple (and old) attack; many DoS attacks based on large amounts of traffic first cause problems by depleting this same limited pool of threads/connections.