[ale] Being used in a DOS attack against others

[jimpop at rocketship.com (Jim Popovitch)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Rickman [mailto:jonathan at xcorps.net]
>
> That would be a somewhat inefficient was to generate
> a denial of service.

Actually there are a ton of mailhosts on very highspeed links.  If the
DOS'er uses enough mailhosts this is a very effective DOS method.  Remember
DOS doesn't just include overloading a router.  Disabling a mailserver by
filling /var/spool/mail or /var/spool/mqueue is an old school DOS trick.

-Jim P.


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