[MUD-Dev] DoS and muds

[Josh Rollyson]

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are unfortunally very common on my other
addiction (IRC) and I was thinking about something, what about MUDs. 

Has anyone ever though about the effects of a denial of service
attack against a mud and how they could be used to cheat ?
Crash bugs have been used to cheat for a long time but what about attacks
which render all connections unusable ?
I could see where that could be used to freeze an opponent to prevent them
from trying to escape :
Spam a few commands
Packet flood the mud in question ( won't go into the details of how - thats
for bugtraq list)
Wait a minute or two
Stop packeting
Loot player.

Also has anybody had experience with players trying this, and has anybody ever
tryed to come up with a way to prevent this ?

Right now the only way I see to logicly stop this is to threaten deletion,
which would negate the gains from this , but probably provoke more attacks.


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