TCP half-open

The term half-open refers to TCP connections whose state is out of synchronization between the two communicating hosts, possibly due to a crash of one side. ^[1]

4 relations: Denial-of-service attack, SYN cookies, SYN flood, Transmission Control Protocol.

Denial-of-service attack

In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet.

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SYN cookies

SYN cookie is a technique used to resist SYN flood attacks.

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SYN flood

A SYN flood is a form of denial-of-service attack in which an attacker sends a succession of SYN requests to a target's system in an attempt to consume enough server resources to make the system unresponsive to legitimate traffic.

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Transmission Control Protocol

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the main protocols of the Internet protocol suite.

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Embryonic connection, Half-open connection.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_half-open

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