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100-160 · Question #40
A client cannot connect to the corporate web server. You discover a large number of half-open TCP connections to the server. What should you do?
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Network Security Concepts
Question
A client cannot connect to the corporate web server. You discover a large number of half-open TCP connections to the server. What should you do?
Options
- ATake action to stop the TCP SYN flood attack.
- BChange the connection protocol from HTTP to HTTPS.
- CIgnore the half-open connections because this is a normal part of the TCP three-way handshake.
- DFlush the DNS cache information.
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Topics
#SYN flood#DoS attack#TCP three-way handshake#half-open connections