[clug] DDOS using SYN cookies.

[Sunnz]

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/10/01/0127245.shtml

Looks pretty serious, "there are no known mitigation" technique... now
I don't completely understand this myself, I know that TCP initiates
with a 3 way hand shake, but never know a SYN cookie is used to avoid
DDOS attack... but now SYN cookies are used to do a DDOS?!

What do you think?

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