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by lmz 703 days ago
Detecting "DOS" by putting the packets into a Python buffer seems... counterproductive.
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... for the reasons the other guy said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41011627

DoS attacks attempt to overwhelm your system or your system's connection by sheer amount of packets. And here you are capturing those packets and keeping them in memory - this just makes your system fall over faster.