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#3 Denial of Service attacks

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2000-07-13
2000-07-13
Eric Kidd
No

We can be attacked in the following ways:

* UpdateServer can spawn an inifinite number of threads
* VirtualDNS serveTCP can spawn an infinite number of threads
* VirtualDNS serveUDP handles responses in serial

We've added timeouts and careful exception-handling to minimize these
problems.

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