In formalizing our analysis of the secure W3 and gopher daemons relative to denial of service attacks, we found some potentials for abuse and made enhancements to prevent various forms of denial of service via leaving open channels, creating too many requests resulting in excessive file pointers leading to OS failures during allocation of sparse resources, and other such things. These fixes are available in the new on-line version. -> See: Info-Sec Heaven using our New Super Secure World-Wide-Web Server -> Free: Test your system's security (scans deeper than SATAN or ISS!) ---------------------- both at URL: http://all.net ---------------------- -> Read: "Protection and Security on the Information Superhighway" John Wiley and Sons, 1995 ISBN 0-471-11389-1, 320 pp, $24.95 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Management Analytics - 216-686-0090 - PO Box 1480, Hudson, OH 44236