What are SYN cookies?
A method to prevent SYN flood attacks by a TCP server’s responding in a special way to a client's request while establishing a connection with the former.
This can decrease the load created by a SYN attack, although these days SYN cookies are not very efficient against real-world SYN attacks.
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