Denial of Service Attacks

Advantage Database Server

Advantage Database Server provides the capability to monitor the number of partial Internet logins. The server will allow a maximum number of attempted Internet logins, it will stop all further Internet connection requests until some of the partial Internet connections are cleared out by the watchdog thread. The purpose of this is to keep a Denial of Service attack from stopping users on the local network from connecting to the Advantage Database Server.

By default the maximum number or partial logins is 1/3 of the user license with a ceiling of 100 and a floor of 3.

Connection Errors

Internet connection errors will be logged in the ADS_ERR.ADT or ADS_ERR.DBF file. You can look at this file to see the incorrect logins.