Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:10:57 +0200
From: Simone Piunno <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [[email protected]: DoS against mysqld][email protected] wrote:
> If are create more than eleven bad connection (ex. Bad Handshake)
> at port mysqld, the server, from this time, block all incoming
> connections.
>
> This is the error:
>
> mysql> connect test 127.0.0.1
> ERROR 1129: Host 'localhost.localdomain' is blocked because of many
> connection errors. Unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'
Sorry but this is not a DoS against mysqld,
this is a DoS against yourself!
Only connections coming from the offending IP address are blocked,
and I can't see anything wrong in this.
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