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You're analyzing a server under attack. Running netstat -an | grep -c SYN_RECV returns 15000, while netstat -an | grep -c ESTABLISHED returns only 50.
The server has net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 0 and net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 1024.
What is happening and what is the IMMEDIATE consequence?
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