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Re: TCP SYN cookies and Bug #520668



On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 11:00 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:

> BTW, will users think that the current warning ("possible SYN flooding
> on port %d. Sending cookies") always indicates an attack?  Hopefully
> not.

I'm sure non sysadmins will be confused by it- but they probably don't
look at dmesg anyhow except when asked to to gather diagnostic data for
a sysadmin/developer.

-Rob

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