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Thanks for clarifying this stuff. I see now why the username, etc, are in
the interface, even though it's presignon.

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Scott Klement wrote:
> > I want to be able to hang up on people before they ever see the signon
> > screen. Possible through exit points?
>
> Yes, but foolish.  You see, you're allowing the users to create a
> connection to the iSeries, but then denying it.  If they want to hurt you
> in some way, they can write a program that will create thousands of
> connection attempts very quickly, and it'll be a denial of service attack.

This is an argument against all exit point programs that have anything to
do with the network, pre-authentication or anonymous. Anything that pays
attention to network traffic in any way can be DOSed.

Thanks for the explanation, that's what I needed.

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