Closing off tcp

[Simon Waters]

Doug Barton wrote:
> 
> Comments, suggestions, etc. welcome,

The standards say it should be listening and answering - why do
they want to break the standards? 

So many people break the standards that it doesn't usually cause
major problems, but may confuse you poor successor when he adds
another record and bang suddenly some users can't get anything
to work. Or maybe you don't notice you've lost a percentage of
your potential web business....

SYN flooding shouldn't be a major problem if your firewalled, or
your kernel has defences, besides if a decent hacker wants to
DoS you, I dare say simply flooding the bandwidth, or DNS server
will do the trick.