On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 06:18:27PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> > How about adding a concurrency limit in inetd so that only a
> > specified number of simultaneous invocations of each service may be
> > started?
> 
> Seems to be to me _asking_ for a DoS attack (though I suppose such
> attacks are possible anyway).

Yes, of course: just make more than the allowed connections per
second. Just ran into this with rquotad on my NFS server :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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