Show HN: My 486 Server

Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by glassprongs on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:41PM (#29959765)

Very cool. How many of us did it take to DDOS the server? It doesn't load for me either :)

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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by smoppi on Sunday January 16, 2022 @03:47PM (#29959828)

The TCP/IP stack is compiled for 64 sockets. If the socket table is full, it just drops all new SYN packets and does not answer to them.

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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by CodeWriter23 on Sunday January 16, 2022 @04:49PM (#29960524)

Just curious and totally not being critical, what was your thinking about dropping SYN vs responding with RST?

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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by smoppi on Sunday January 16, 2022 @04:52PM (#29960571)

I think the user will most probably keep pressing the F5/Refresh button anyway if the site is not working at the first try, so responding with a RST packet would just use more bandwidth and resources.

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Re:Show HN: My 486 Server by smoppi on Sunday January 16, 2022 @04:50PM (#29960541)

iptraf on another computer, connected to the same hub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CeK1TnGhIs

Assuming that one "TCP entry" means one socket, that's a lot of SYN packets...

Video from what it looks like on the server: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVKjVyM53sg

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