HTTP connection flood

[theace]

Hi everybody,

A couple of days ago, i was trying to open a couple of 100 http connections
to a server, and leaving them open.
I would like to know if there is a maximum number of sockets that can be
binded to the http connections, assuming the machine is (i think) running
windows server.
Will exceeding some number will cause a similar effect of Dos attack.

10x

[Chris]

Hi everybody,

A couple of days ago, i was trying to open a couple of 100 http connections
to a server, and leaving them open.
I would like to know if there is a maximum number of sockets that can be
binded to the http connections, assuming the machine is (i think) running
windows server.
Will exceeding some number will cause a similar effect of Dos attack.

10x

It depends on the threshold set for the webserver. This is why you often see the /. DoS.