20 Jan
2016
20 Jan
'16
4:58 p.m.
On 2016-01-20 16:55, Sampsa Laine wrote:
On 20 Jan 2016, at 15:51, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
The bridge do not have that problem, no.
Well, yes, that is true. However, I doubt many would be clever enough to even know what
they are doing.
However, a more silly thing is just simple DOS attacks. If you connect to the multinet
server, then the proper remote end cannot. Which is simple, not super harmful, but
annoying...
This problem has existed with for the bridge and Multinet tunnels since the beginning.
However I doubt most hackers would go through the
trouble of learning the precise format of a DECNET packet encapsulated in UDP/TCP to
insert malicious data into our network - we're just not valuable enough a goal..
Agreed that we're likely not a target for purposeful attacks. More
potentially victims of stupidity. Which is why I ask, and is concerned.
Like I said, the bridge is not susceptible to this. Seems Multinet might
be...
Johnny
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