Re: udp packet storms

[cellwood () gauss ELEE CalPoly EDU (Chris Ellwood)]

Darren Reed said...
> > This is yet another reason why you should disable echo, discard,
> > chargen, and any other inetd tcp/udp debugging service.  It's
> > surprising how many people leave those in inetd.conf.
>
> Sorry, I missed out on the reason why we should disable discard.
> Would you mind explaining it ?  I thought it was like it's name sake -
> a sink hole (blackhole if you like) for packets.  Sort of like /dev/null.

Yes, that's correct.  But if you aren't using it for anything, then it's
probably safe to disable it.

- Chris