Re: finger @linux.cs.helsinki.fi

Juan Cespedes (cespedes@lander.es)
Fri, 8 Nov 1996 10:23:52 +0100 (MET)


On Fri, 08 Nov 1996 02:38:16, Louis Mandelstam wrote:
>
> finger @linux.cs.helsinki.fi hasn't been working lately.
>
> The host does respond to pings as well as telnet to port 25 - it seems as
> if tcp port 79 is packet filtered out, actually.

Maybe someone is SYN-flooding it? I think it's time to include
some sort of anti-syn flood in the kernel.

Juan Cespedes