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Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity?
From: psz () maths usyd edu au (Paul Szabo)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:26:24 +1000 (EST)
3APA3A <3APA3A () SECURITY NNOV RU> wrote:
III. Details Inetd has an option -R rate ... default is 256 ... ... if more than 256 connections received in one minute [inetd] will disable service for next 10 minutes ... ... IP address of attacker will never be logged. IV. Workaround -R 0 -s your_ad_can_be_here
I guess you are trying to say that xinetd is more configurable than inetd. Yes, it is known that with inetd you need tcp_wrappers to log attack IPs. Your cure is worse than the disease: rate limiting allows a DoS against the service, no limit allows a DoS against the whole machine. Cheers, Paul Szabo - psz () maths usyd edu au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney 2006 Australia
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- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity?, (continued)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Thamer Al-Harbash (Sep 08)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Dan Stromberg (Sep 08)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Andres Kroonmaa (Sep 10)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Dan Stromberg (Sep 08)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Dagmar d'Surreal (Sep 08)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Mike Hoskins (Sep 09)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Mike Tancsa (Sep 08)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Sep 10)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Greg A. Woods (Sep 10)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Sep 10)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Dan Harkless (Sep 09)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Darren Pilgrim (Sep 09)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Paul Szabo (Sep 08)
- Re[2]: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? 3APA3A (Sep 08)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Lucas Holt (Sep 08)
- Re: Re[2]: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Paul Szabo (Sep 08)
- Re[4]: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? 3APA3A (Sep 08)
- RE: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? bjornar.bjorgum.larsen (Sep 09)
- Re: 11 years of inetd default insecurity? Thamer Al-Harbash (Sep 08)