Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:30:21 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: SO_REUSEADDR not allowing server and client to use same port |
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:43:28 -0500 Nebojsa Miljanovic <neb@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
> Alan, > thanks. With that additional INFO, I was able to find detailed description of > this denial of service attack (attached below). > Just to clarify. Having this port re-use check prevents folks from launching > this attack as opposed to being victim of it?
Different issue. I can hijack a connection.
Imagine I have a server bound to *.5000, and someone is about to connect. If on the server box I am able to bind and issue a connect outwards matching the inbound connection I will get the connection not the server.
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