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

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, the TCP PACKETS sent to a web server could certianly effect it...
but EMAIL messages sent to a web server would not (I'm seperating the
server functions ... a web server would not respond to email messages).

TCP Packets and email messages work at different levels.  TCP Packets
work at the protocol level, while email messages work at the application
level.

david

> 
> Daivd, the packets are sent via TCP/IP to the server,
> with 'legitimate' information. This could happen as well to an
> AS/400 web server?
> MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com wrote:
> > > 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?
> 
> It wasn't a DOS attack via email ... it was via TCP/IP packets.  The
> industry experts the news media used tended to refer to the packets
> as "Messages" so that non-techies could possibly understand it.
> 
> Also, email attacks don't usually effect a web server.
> 
> david
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