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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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