Re: [PATCH] fix small DoS on connect() (was Re: BUG: Unusual TCP Connect() results.)

Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> During this, the client cannot connect to www.kernel.org from this port
> anymore :
>  wks$ printf "HEAD / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n" | nc -p 10000 204.152.191.5 80; echo "ret=$?"
>  ret=1

What if you let the client connect from a random port which is what it
should do?
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