...you think you need to launch a SYN flood against 25/TCP of a small server hanging off a home DSL line... Yes, this appears to be the cause of our email problems this week. Apparently, one of the world's biggest losers think s/he is 1337 and is thus running a SYN flood attack against SMTP. No, I don't know why, but I'd be very curious to find out. I wondered if it was retaliation for all the bounce-back spam I saw over the weekend. Of course, all the headers were forged on all the bounces that I received (which means I should not have received the bounces at all -- man do I hate improperly configured MTAs). Anyway... loser loser loser... that's what I think of the lame schmuck DoS'ing our server.
