• Subject: Re: Denial of Service, Good for AS/400?
  • From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 08:19:35 -0600 (CST)

> 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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