[Dnsmasq-discuss] DHCP Denial-of-Service

Luca Landi me at lucalandi.com
Sun Jul 17 22:41:46 BST 2005


Simon Kelley ha scritto:
> [...]
> Maybe something like just caching the last result for 30 seconds or so,  
> so that subsequent requests to check the same IP return immediately if 
> nothing replied to the ARP request last time. Does that sound sensible?

Yes, it does. At least for average cases such as mine. Maybe it still 
couldn't cope with worst cases but I think these are quite unlikely to 
happen in reality or anyway out of dnsmasq's range for other reasons.

Thank you for your quick reply!
Bye,
Luca



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