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Subject: Re: [whitevampire@MINDLESS.COM: Naptha - New DoS]
To: rodrigob@conectiva.com.br ("Rodrigo Barbosa (aka morcego)")
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> Unaffected operating systems:
> * OpenBSD seems to be unaffected
> * Windows 2000 seems to be unaffected

Someone isnt trying hard enough ;)

Linux 2.4 is designed to handle some of these issues, but you need to 
address aspects of this in applications, protocols and elsewhere. Its basically
no different to the synbomb except the resource usage is trickier to control

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