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List:       bugtraq
Subject:    an detailed explaination why land attack works?
From:       Feiyi Wang <fwang2 () EOS ! NCSU ! EDU>
Date:       1997-11-29 16:17:21
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Hi, there

Can anyone give a detailed explaination about why land attack works on
some TCP/IP stack (say BSD-derived)? Which loop is trapped in by this
"self-connect" request? What's the state transition internally? I can't
figure it out.

A related question is I can't use tcpdump get any output from the victim
machine, once it is received the "self-connect" request, it freeze, not
even a ACK packet. (I am trying it on FreeBSD 2.2.5)

Any information is appreciated.

/Feiyi

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