[luca.ercoliat_private: DoS against mysqld]

From: Simone Piunno (pioppoat_private)
Date: Fri Aug 23 2002 - 09:10:57 PDT

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    luca.ercoliat_private wrote:

> If are create more than eleven bad connection (ex. Bad Handshake) 
> at port mysqld, the server, from this time, block all incoming
> connections.
> 
> This is the error:
> 
> mysql> connect test 127.0.0.1
> ERROR 1129: Host 'localhost.localdomain' is blocked because of many
> connection errors.  Unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'

Sorry but this is not a DoS against mysqld, 
this is a DoS against yourself!

Only connections coming from the offending IP address are blocked,
and I can't see anything wrong in this.

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