RE: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Any server on the Internet can be the target of a Denial of Service attack.
The idea is to overwhelm the server with new connections and/or requests.
Attackers don't try to penetrate the security of the server.  So, although
security on the AS/400 is great, that's not the issue.

Some firewalls can be configured to try to detect attacks.  They look for
excessive packets coming from a single source.  They can filter the packets
before they get to the server.  In the Yahoo attack, the news was saying
packets were coming from multiple sources.  The attackers were good!


-----Original Message-----
From: Pike4@ix.netcom.com [mailto:Pike4@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 6:52 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?


During the recent outrages at Yahoo and the others, by hackers who as I
understand it, overload the web servers, with excessive email, I was
wondering if this could happen to an AS/400 web server?

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