syn flood

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A hacking technique used to cause a denial of service SYN packets are sent from a client with a spoofed IP address and are sent at a rate faster than the TCP stack on the host is set to time out As the client address is spoofed, the client sends no SYN-ACK, but continues to flood the host with SYN packets, tying up the resources of the host
When the SYN queue is flooded, no new connection can be opened
syn flood
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