On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Phil Chambers wrote:
> > Or do you mean send 5xx responses to all subsequent commands?
>
> I think it would have to be a case of sending 5xx to everything to prevent the
> likelyhood of the sender timing out waiting for a response.
You'd still need to drop the connection after x (more) commands, as
otherwise it makes DoS attacks even easier. I am not sure that I am
convinced that it is worth it.
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