Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The city is also one of two county seats of Hinds County, along with Raymond. The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, down from 173,514 at the 2010 census. Jacksons population declined more between 2010 and 2020 (11.42%) than any major city in the United States. Jackson is the anchor for the Jackson metropolitan statistical area, the largest metropolitan area completely within the state. With a 2020 population estimated around 600,000, metropolitan Jackson is home to over one-fifth of Mississippis population. The city sits on the Pearl River and is located in the greater Jackson Prairie region of Mississippi.
Founded in 1821 as the site for a new state capital, the city is named after General Andrew Jackson, who was honored for his role in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 and later served as U.S. president. Following the nearby Battle of Vicksburg in 1863 during the American Civil War, Union forces under the command of General William Tecumseh Sherman began the siege of Jackson and the city was subsequently burned.During the 1920s, Jackson surpassed Meridian to become the most populous city in the state following a speculative natural gas boom in the region. The current slogan for the city is The City with Soul. It has had numerous musicians prominent in blues, gospel, folk, and jazz. The city is located in the deep south halfway between Memphis and New Orleans on Interstate 55 and Dallas and Atlanta on Interstate 20. Being at this location has given the city the nickname the crossroads of the south.
The city has a number of museums and cultural institutions, including the Mississippi Childrens Museum, Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, Mississippi Museum of Art, Old Capital Museum, Museum of Mississippi History. Other notable locations are the Mississippi Coliseum and the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, home of the Jackson State Tigers Football Team.
The Jackson metropolitan statistical area is the states second largest metropolitan area overall, due to four counties in northern Mississippi being part of the Memphis, Tennessee metropolitan area. In 2020, the Jackson metropolitan area held a GDP of 30 billion dollars, accounting for 29% of the states total GDP of 104.1 billion dollars.
SYN Flood
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A SYN flood is a type of denial of service (DoS) attack that sends a series of SYN messages to a computer, such as a web server. SYN is short for synchronize and is the first step in establishing communication between two systems over the TCP/IP protocol.
When a server receives a SYN request, it responds with a SYN-ACK (synchronize acknowledge) message. The computer then responds with an ACK (acknowledge) message that establishes a connection between the two systems. In a SYN flood attack, a computer sends a large number of SYN requests, but does not send back any ACK messages. Therefore, the server ends up waiting for multiple responses, tying up system resources. If the queue of response requests grows large enough, the server may not be able respond to legitimate requests. This results in a slow or unresponsive server.
Since SYN flooding is a common type of DoS attack, most server software has the capability to detect and stop SYN floods before they have a noticeable effect on the server. For example, if a server receives a large number of SYN requests from the same IP address in a short period of time, it may temporarily block all requests from that location.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are more difficult to handle since they flood the server from multiple IP addresses. However, these attacks can be limited by using SYN caching or implementing SYN cookies. Both of these methods record IP addresses used for flood attacks. The system then limits the resources the computer will use to respond to requests from these locations. This type of SYN flood protection can be configured directly on server or on a network firewall.
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