[Live-devel] Clarification

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Mon Oct 7 05:48:04 PDT 2013


> Thanks for your valuable input. But can you please throw some light on the Denial of Service attack.  How this will be security risk at the Server side.

Because a client A can ask a server B to transmit a stream of packets towards a third party C - who never asked for this.  That's why we don't allow a server to do this, by default. 

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/

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